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I found this user management strategy somewhere, and it's been working great for me:

git config --global --unset user.name
git config --global --unset user.email
git config --global --unset user.signingkey

git config --global user.useConfigOnly true

git config --global user.<id>.name "<name>"
git config --global user.<id>.email "<email>"

git config --global alias.identity '! git config user.name "$(git config user.$1.name)"; git config user.email "$(git config user.$1.email)"; :'
  • So given that I have created two users, e.g. personal and work I run: git identity work
  • In repos that need the work name/e-mail, and git identity personal in the ones that are private.
  • Whoami configuration: git config --global alias.whoami = "! git var -l | grep '^GIT_.*_IDENT'"
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