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J. Doe
J. Doe

Reputation: 31

Config for folder with repos

I don't like git config --global because I use more accounts.

I also don't like setting config every I wanna clone some repo.

I am looking for something like this:

folder01/
    ..there is one clonned repo..
folderO2/
    ..there is two clonned repo..

git config <folder> user.email ...

I need repos in folder inherit the config from parent folder.

Both folder aren't repos, just folder.

I clone repos into some folder and sometimes I remove some repo.

Thanks a lot!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 529

Answers (1)

dan1st
dan1st

Reputation: 16383

If you only want one config for your system, you could just configure it with git config --system (as admin/root).

If you want to use the same config for multiple users (but not all users), you can create this config and a link to that config in the home directory of each user.

There is no possibility do that directly(at least I don't know any).

However, there are a few interresting things:

  • The command git config has a --file option. With this, you can configure seperate config files.

  • You can set the config file for you git config --local include.path "<config file>".

With that, you can create a new config file for your directory and when you create a directory, you can just set the config file of a directory using git config --local include.path "<config file>".

You can also automate that by writing a script, that automatically scannes all directories for e.g. a config file and executes git config --local include.path "<config file>" if it finds any files.

That script could look like that(if you use linux/bash):

#!/bin/bash

git init

initDir="$PWD"

while [ "$PWD" != "/" -a ! -f "./.gitconfig"  ] ; do
        cd ..
done
if [[ -f "./.gitconfig" ]]; then
        configFile="$PWD/.gitconfig"
        cd $initDir
        git config --local include.path "$configFile"
fi

Upvotes: 1

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