Wrong git email again? Pick the identity from the remote URL

Sandeep Shelke — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:18:24 +0000

Personal GitHub, work GitHub, GitLab, two Bitbuckets. More than once I committed with the wrong name and email. Sometimes the push was rejected. Sometimes nobody noticed for weeks.

Why `includeIf gitdir` is not enough

It picks the identity by folder. Repos don't always live in the right folder. The remote URL is a better signal: git@bitbucket.org:client/api.git is a client repo wherever it is cloned.

Git can do this itself since 2.36:

[includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:git@bitbucket.org:client/**"]
    path = ~/.gitconfig-client

Add one SSH host entry per account, because GitHub and Bitbucket won't take the same key on two accounts.

Or let gitpro write it

gitpro is a small open-source CLI that writes exactly this: the includeIf blocks and the SSH entries, in a marked block, backed up first. No daemon, no git wrapper.

pipx install gitpro
gitpro setup   # preview, then confirm once
gitpro why     # which identity this repo should use, and the fix
gitpro scan    # find repos that override it

scan found one old repo of mine with its own user.email that ignored everything. scan --fix removed it.

Coding agents commit as whoever git says you are, so there is also a Claude Code hook that blocks a wrong-identity commit or push.

Linux and macOS, MIT: github.com/Yantrakar/gitpro

Written with help from Claude. The experience and the tool are mine.

DEV Community: Sandeep Shelke

Wrong git email again? Pick the identity from the remote URL

Why includeIf gitdir is not enough

Or let gitpro write it

Why `includeIf gitdir` is not enough