git multiple user names for the different projects within the same system

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whatf picture whatf · Jan 30, 2012 · Viewed 69.7k times · Source

I have a different git repository for my office and a different git repo for my hobby projects.

When I do git config --global user.name the user name changes globally and this creates a confusion of committing to a repo with user name.

Hence the question is how can i have the same username across all my hobby projects and the same username across the office projects. I use the same machine to work on both the places.

Answer

mikej picture mikej · Jan 30, 2012

Just use --local instead of --global. In fact, local is the default so you can just do 

git config user.email [email protected]
git config user.name "whatf hobbyist"

in one repo, and

git config user.email [email protected]
git config user.name "whatf at work"

in another repo

The values will then be stored in in the .git/config for that repo rather than your global configuration file.

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