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Pablo
Pablo

Reputation: 10602

Git: Set local user.name and user.email different for each repo

I'm currently working on 2 projects, which expect that I configure my local username and email with different data when I push to them. For that I'm updating my config all the time like:

git config --local user.email "[email protected]"

Since they are different repositories, is there a way I could define an local email for each repository?

Maybe in the .gitconfig?

Upvotes: 407

Views: 356848

Answers (6)

Santosh GN
Santosh GN

Reputation: 141

It can be achieved with below commands,

git config --local credential.helper ""
git push origin master

It asks for username and password for current repo.

Upvotes: 13

t3chb0t
t3chb0t

Reputation: 18645

...or just edit the .git\config file and add these three lines somewhere:

[user]
    name = YourName
    email = [email protected]

Upvotes: 34

gregory
gregory

Reputation: 12895

For just one repo, go into to the relevant repo DIR and:

git config user.name "Your Name Here"
git config user.email [email protected]

For (global) default email (which is configured in your ~/.gitconfig):

git config --global user.name "Your Name Here"
git config --global user.email [email protected]

You can check your Git settings with: git config user.name && git config user.email

If you are in a specific repo which you setup a new user/config for (different to global) then it should show that local config, otherwise it will show your global config.

Upvotes: 760

Kris Stern
Kris Stern

Reputation: 1340

One trick that has been reliably working for me is to set both a global config credential.username option as well as a local one. They will ask for a password for authentication. This works even for Git Credential Manager say on a Mac. For more information, please see: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/caching-your-github-credentials-in-git. So you can cache like at least two different passwords for two different GitHub accounts.

Upvotes: 2

GPuri
GPuri

Reputation: 813

I generally tend to keep diff name/email for my company project and personal project(on github)

Run below command in the git repo where you need to specify the user/email

git config user.name <user-name>
git config user.email <user-email>

Upvotes: 10

alvaroIdu
alvaroIdu

Reputation: 543

You can confirm that by printing on the terminal:

  1. Global user:git config --global user.name
  2. Local user: git config user.name

Upvotes: 27

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