Git config user.email for repositories in subdirectory

Quick hint for developers working on source code from different Git accounts having different e-mails for them. Let say we develop our own projects and we support development for two other companies. Our folder structure could look like

~/.gitconfig ~/PersonalProjects/ ~/CompanyAbc/.gitconfig ~/CompanyMno/.gitconfig 

Of course we have configured default config as follows

user@mymac ~/ $ git config user.name "Firstname Lastname" user@mymac ~/ $ git config user.email "user@myprivatebox.com" user@mymac ~/ $ git config push.default simple user@mymac ~/ $ git config core.editor emacs 

We want different e-mails by default for all repositories in these directories without configuring this manually with command

user@mymac ~/CompanyAbc/website-repo (master) $ git config user.email "user@company-abc.com" 

every time when wy clone new repository.

Solution

Main ~/.gitconfig file should look like

[user] name = Firstname Lastname email = user@myprivatebox.com [push] default = simple [core] editor = emacs [includeIf "gitdir:~/CompanyAbc/"] path = ~/CompanyAbc/.gitconfig [includeIf "gitdir:~/CompanyMno/"] path = ~/CompanyMno/.gitconfig 

Set custom e-mail address in ~/CompanyAbc/.gitconfig

[user] email = user@company-abc.com 

You can repeat this for other configurations like ~/CompanyMno/.gitconfig too.

Verification

Please execute command to verify new settings

user@mymac ~/CompanyAbc/some-repo/ (master) $ git config user.email 

It should throw out something like

user@company-abc.com 

Good luck with coding!