Automatically managing personal and work git email

Managing personal and work git email.md

In order to differentiate your professional and personal email address when working on git repositories, here is how I proceeded.

1. Create a global git hooks folder

Create a folder where you will drop the hooks that should apply to each repository. And set the core.hooksPath on this folder

git config --global core.hooksPath /path/to/my/centralized/hooks

2. Create a post-checkout hook

The hook post-checkout is triggered when you change branch, and also on the git clone. So it'll be executed for existing repo, and those you will clone later.

See post-checkout file below to see what I put in.

Don't forget to add execution permission on your new hook :

chmod +x post-checkout

⚠ The core.hooksPath support is new in Git version 2.9.

post-checkout

#!/bin/bash

set -e

companyEmail='name@my-awesome-company.com'
personalEmail='name@personal.com'
companyName='my-awesome-company'

repoUrl=`git config --get remote.origin.url`
currentEmail=`git config user.email`

if [[ $repoUrl == *$companyName* ]] && [ "$currentEmail" != "$companyEmail" ]
then
  git config user.email $companyEmail
  printf "🏢 It's a company repository. \n\nThe git user.email config has been setted to $companyEmail  🎉 \n"
fi

# Reset classic local git hooks
git config core.hooksPath ".git/hooks"