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Maintaining Different Git Identities

Max on July 02, 2017

I like to have separate "identities" for my private and work stuff when using Git: Commits at work should be authored with my work email and commit...

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Denis Denisov • Sep 10 '17 • Edited

github.com/DrVanScott/git-clone-init

case "$url" in
  *@github.com:*  ) email="my-public@email";    name="public name";;
  *//github.com/* ) email="my-public@email";    name="public name";;
  *@corp.com:*    ) email="my-corporate@email"; name="real name";;
  *//corp.com/*   ) email="my-corporate@email"; name="real name";;
esac

.gitconfig

[init]
  templatedir = ~/.git-templates

Git config from LDAP gist.github.com/seveas/2431800

Stanislas • Feb 13 '19

That's even better 🥺 Thanks

12s12m • Jul 3 '17

Thanks this is really helpful. I used to manually edit the .git/config directory by appending the [user] information for every work related repo. This is a much better way :)

Alex Pliutau • Jul 9 '17

Nice! Should it be changed?
From:

[includeIf "gitdir:~/Work/"] path = .gitconfig-work

To:

[includeIf "gitdir:~/Work/"] path = ~/.gitconfig-work

Max • Jul 9 '17

It's not necessary to specify the full path. The path is relative to the location of the .gitconfig file itself, therefore it works in this case both ways.

But to make it easier to understand, the fullpath is probably a better example.