I need to do dev of work on my personal laptop. Usually, I will clone the repository and set a work email for that repository by git config user.email <your@email.com>. That requests config for each working repositories, and if there are other settings, it requires more actions. And most important, I forget to set up it sometimes.
Later, I did search on the internet and found I am actually able to set a separated gitconfig for the specific folder. Below are the steps.
Create a separated gitconfig file
~/.gitconfig-work
Add the settings you need into the file, like email/name
git config -f ~/.gitconfig-work user.email <your@email.com>
Now we have gitconfig file for working.
Set work folder to use the new config file
git config --global "includeIf.gitdir:~/work/.path" "~/.gitconfig-work"
Then for all repositories inside of work folder, it will use the new config file.
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Add isWork to the new config file
git config -f ~/.gitconfig-work core.isWork true
And run below command inside of the work folder to see if the config is applied
git config --get core.isWork || echo false
credit/reference: https://filipe.kiss.ink/multiple-gpg-keys-git/
Top comments (3)
Thanks for sharing.
I am interested for this to use a different email for my work repos. Is there a way I can keep my settings my mine gitconfig (such as aliases) and just override the email portion in a second git config for work?
I linked back to your post in mine on git configs.
dev.to/michaelcurrin/dotfiles-git-...
I think it only uses the settings in the
gitconfig-workto override same one in thegitconfig, it is only the email and name by my example, so all your other settings like alias should still work as beforePerfect, thanks