Using Multiple Author Identities with Git

[seriousTrig]

http://www.thecodedself.com/Using-Multiple-Author-Identities-With-Git/

[eliaspro]

I always wondered why git doesn't support hierarchic config locations… My homedir looks like this:

  ~/code-repositories/
     +---$company/ (my work related repositories)
     +---private/  (my personal non-public repos)
     +---public/   (my clones of public FLOSS repos)

So I'd simply like to drop a `.gitconfig` with the default user for all repos below this location into each of those 3 directories, but instead I have to make sure for every freshly clone/initiated repo to configure the author etc.

[pseud]

I use Karn for this: https://github.com/prydonius/karn

[tomyws]

I only recently discovered the local "current repository" configuration option, but I still need to verify which identity I'm using before a commit.

It makes sense not to set the global config at all if you're paranoid. This ensures you have to setup the user.name and user.email locally.

[sigsergv → tomyws]

There is also extremely useful option user.useConfigOnly, it was added recently though. Before 2.8 (iirc) you had to use weird hack "git config --global user.email '(none)'"

[rlpb]

I'm forever using the wrong hat when making commits, because I don't keep all my repositories local but clone when needed.

I keep intending to make a wrapper around "git init" and "git clone" warning me of what my identity is, so I have the opportunity to change it.

Karn looks interesting (thanks pseud!) but unfortunately won't work for me because I often use /tmp and not any consistent path naming that would identify which hat I should be using.

[lebanon_tn]

Thanks for this. I had assumed there is a way to do this but had never gotten around to setting it up since I use different machines altogether for personal and work projects.