Adapting Your Git Config for Work

• Change your git config on your work laptop
• If you use a common gitconfig on multiple laptops, you can use the includeIf directive to change your git config on your work laptop
• Settings you may want to change include:
  • user.name
  • user.email
  • defaultBranch
• In my case, I like to use my personal email address and main as the default branch on my personal laptop, but my work email address and trunk as the default branch on my work laptop
• To do this, I have the following in my ~/.gitconfig:

  [includeIf "gitdir:~/work/"]
    path = ~/.gitconfig-work
  

• And the following in my ~/.gitconfig-work:

  [user]
    email = "YOUR EMAIL"
  [init]
    defaultBranch = trunk
  

• You can also use includeIf to change your git config based on the hostname of the machine you’re on
• Need to add your work email address to your GitHub account? See this guide from GitHub

See /github-notifications-custom-routing/ if I want to also address how to route GitHub notifications to different email addresses

Inbox

• Git, GitHub and your work email • bitcrowd
  • Does a good job of walking through why and how to use the includeIf directive to adapt your git config based on the machine you’re on
  • I like the use of code blocks to show the folder structure of the files being used before showing what’s in them
  • I also like the break down of the context, then the git config step, then the GitHub steps
• How to configure Git to commit using different emails for work and home repos — Flother
• Git Tips - Using Git with Multiple Email Addresses
• How to use different git emails for personal and work repositories on the same machine · Hao’s learning log
• Sending email notifications from GitHub organisations to different emails | Christian Heilmann
• Organizing multiple Git identities | Garrit’s Notes