I have started to work as a full-time software engineer at a company. Therefore I had to clone lot of projects and start to commit these repositories with my company email.
I had already defined my personal email as a global git config like this
git config --global user.email "hasantezcan@personal.com"
As you can see, my personal email defined as a global config so I have to define my company email as a local config after every single new cloning.
git config --local user.email "hasantezcan@company.com"
But sometimes I forget to define my company mail and have to reset my commits and resend it again. It's definitely time consuming to do this!
I need a persistent solution for this issue.
And I have encountered with .gitconfig file!
.gitconfig
Actually when you set the global email and username you change the .gitconfig file which belongs in user root directory. (the directory that you type cd and enter in terminal prompt)
So what I need is, I have to declare a spacial email under workspace/company directory. Because I download all repository and handle my all business in there.
To solve this issue we can use includeIf setting in global .gitconfig file.
includeIf provides us to change the config file for a specific directory.
So let's get started
First, go to the directory where your company projects are located. For example let's say it is Workspace/CompanyName.
cd Workspace/CompanyName
Create .gitconfig-CompanyName file
touch .gitconfig-CompanyName
Define your company specific configs in there. After this, you will start the use those configs under this directory.
// /Users/hasantezcan/CompanyName/.gitconfig-companyName
[user]
name = hasantezcan
email = hasantezcan@company.com
Now we have to update the global .gitconfig for a special .gitconfig-CompanyName file that will use under this directory.
So let's get declare this;
Go to your user home directory
cd
pwd User/hasantezcan
and update .gitconfig file like this.
[user]
name = hasantezcan
email = hasantezcan77@gmail.com
+[includeIf "gitdir:~/Workspace/CompanyName/"]
+ path = ~/Workspace/CompanyName/.gitconfig-companyName
Voilà! 🎉 Now you can continue to commit your opensource project without any wrong commit email problem.
Top comments (0)