Setting up gitconfig for different work/personal folders/projects

gitconfig setup.md

Summary

• Have different username/email settings for WORK or PERSONAL projects
• Uses the includeIf hack (unfortunately)
• To get this to work (or test) the folder needs to have had git init already occur on it.
• Hack the global .gitconfig file
• Add separate .gitconfig files where you want have separate settings for different work / personal / serious-projects.
• For Windows OS, you need to use case -INSENSITIVE- git command => gitdir/i .. most examples say to use gitdir but that fails on Windows OS.

Steps

1. Create the work folder > C:/Projects/Work/
2. Create the file .gitconfig in this location.
3. Edit it with 'work' settings:

[user]
    name = Work Name
    email = work.email@something.com

4. Follow steps 1->3 for personal stuff > C:/Projects/Personal/
5. Edit ~/.gitconfig (note: this exists in the "home" folder, regardless of your OS)
6. Add the includeIf hack, per customization:

[user]
	email = global.common@email.com
	name = Global common name

[includeIf "gitdir/i:c:/projects/work/"]
path = c:/projects/work/.gitconfig

[includeIf "gitdir/i:c:/projects/personal/"]
path = c:/projects/personal/.gitconfig

7. Test! enter a folder which has already been git init'd and type either/or:

• git config --get-all user.email
• git config -l --show-scope

If you see two emails listed, then you're good to go! and it should take the "included" one.