How to set GitHub user.name and user.email per Repository? Different .config file for different Repository

Change user.email and user.name for each repository separately

Do you have Personal GitHub and Work related GitHub account? I’m sure you do. Most of the fortune 500 companies are now using GitHub as their official code repository.

By default /<Users>/.gitconfig file is used for all related information during commit.

This is how `.gitconfig` file looks like:

[user]
    name = Crunchify
    email = email [at] crunchify.com
[pull]
    rebase = false
[commit]
    gpgSign = false
[gui]
    pruneduringfetch = true
[smartgit "submodule"]
    fetchalways = true
    update = true
    initializenew = true
[push]
    recurseSubmodules = check

As you see above, there is tag called [user] all git clients including smartGit picks up that username, email and will push using that setting.

This is a big problem for your Work and Personal Github or Bitbucket account. You need to be very careful before committing to each repository.

By default hidden .gitconfig file is use for both account and there is no way you could separate out different .gitconfig file for each account

If you have any of below questions then you are at right place:

Setting your commit username and email address in Git
Set GitHub email address on a per repository basis
GIT – different config for different repository
How can I change the author (name / email) of a commit?
How to Change Author Name and Email of Commits on macOS?
GitHub change email for repository

In this tutorial we will go over steps on how to use different setting for different repositories:

Step-1

Clone your Work repository and Private repository to your laptop/desktop. Here is example I’ve shown total 5 Crunchify repositories.

We will use different username and email for each repository.

How to set GitHub user.name and user.email per Repository

Step-2

Go to repository
Click on hidden folder .git
Open config file

GitHub open .git config file and add username and email

Step-3

Add [user] tag with username and email info. Here is a sample.

config file:

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    ignorecase = true
    precomposeunicode = true
[remote "origin"]
    url = https://github.com/Crunchify/CrunchifyTutorials
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master
[user]
    name = Crunchify, LLC
    email = email [at] crunchify.com

Using command line also you could to change the file.

Open macOS Terminal.
Change the current working directory to the local repository
This is a repository where you want to configure the name that is associated with your Git commits.
Execute command: git config user.email "email [at] crunchify.com"
Execute command: git config user.name "Crunchify, LLC"

That’s it.

Now you could use different username/email for each separate github or bitbucket repository.

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