I need to be committing intro different repositories under different user identities. To Open Source ones with my private email, while using work email for work-related commits/repos.
Typically, you would use repo-specific identities. For example (my work repo):
git config user.name "Antonin Kral"
git config user.email antonin.kral@workdomain.com
Now, that is error-prone and painful. I have discovered a neat feature of git (since 2.13) which allows for conditional inclusion of configuration files. Let’s assume the following configuration files:
# ~/.gitconfig
[user]
email = a.kral@bobek.cz
name = Antonin Kral
[includeIf "gitdir:~/Sources/work/"]
path = .gitconfig_work
# ~/.gitconfig_work
[user]
name = Antonin Kral
email = antonin.kral@workdomain.com
And that’s it. Every time I work with repo, which is cloned under ~/Sources/work
, my identity will be automatically changed to work one. This is not limited to identities; you can override anything you want.