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Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer

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How to use a different email address in Git in sub directories

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Motivation

I want to override my personal email address I use for Git with my work email address in my work directory without manually changing it each time.

Create a config file in the work directory 

touch ~/path/to/work/directory/.gitconfig
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# any customization/overrides can be added here [user] name = Clarice Bouwer email = clarice@example.com
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Update ~/.gitconfig 

[includeIf "gitdir:~/path/to/work/directory/"] path = ~/path/to/work/directory/.gitconfig
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Verify 

cd ~/ git config user.email # should be your default config email cd ~/path/to/work/directory git config user.email # should be your override email
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Based on Stack Overflow: Set Git config values for all child folders and Alvin Alexander: Git show change username and email address.

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Carl-Erik Kopseng •

This works great. Been using something similar for a while