Git: Set local user.name and user.email different for each repo

I'm currently working on 2 projects, which expect that I configure my local username and email with different data when I push to them.

for that I'm updaing my config all the time like:

git config --local user.email ""

Since they are different repositories, is there a way I could define an local email for each repository?

Maybe in the .gitconfig?

5 Answers

For just one repo, go into to the relevant repo DIR and:

git config user.name "Your Name Here" git config user.email 

For (global) default email (which is configured in your ~/.gitconfig):

git config --global user.name "Your Name Here" git config --global user.email 

You can check your git settings with:
git config user.name && git config user.email

If you are in a specific repo which you setup a new user/config for (different to global) then it should show that local config, otherwise it will show your global config.

You can confirm that by printing on the terminal:

1. Global user:git config --global user.name
2. Local user: git config user.name

...or just edit the .git\config file and add these three lines somewhere:

[user] name = YourName email = 

I generally tend to keep diff name/email for my company project and personal project(on github)

Run below command in the git repo where you need to specify the user/email

git config user.name <user-name> git config user.email <user-email> 

One trick that has been reliably working for me is to set both a global config credential.username option as well as a local one. They will ask for a password for authentication. This works even for Git Credential Manager say on a Mac. For more information, please see: . So you can cache like at least two different passwords for two different GitHub accounts.