Git Config
Local config per repository
When git config is provided the --local option, the configs apply only to the current directory repository.
For example:
$ mkdir -pv ~/source/myproj
$ cd !$
$ git init --initial-branch=devel
$ git config --local user.name 'Master Yoda'
$ git config --local user.email 'yoda@theforce.dev'This will place the user name and email config in ~/source/myproj/.git/config:
[user]
name = Master Yoda
email = yoda@theforce.devAnd it will apply only to the repository in ~/source/myproj.
Apply git config from a text file
Because we often have lots of personal and work repositories, and have our own preferences, and may want to, or be required to sign commits with a GPG key, or company requirements, it is possible to keep a private file like ~/priv/work-git-config.txt with git configs.
Something like this:
Because we often have several personal and work repositories which may require different git configs, such as different email, GPG signing of commits, etc, one approach is to keep git config text files such as ~/.s3cr37/work-git.config.txt and ~/.s3cr37/personal-git-config.txt with default configs for each case.
For example:
git config --local user.name 'Master Yoda'
git config --local user.email yoda@theforce.dev
git config --local commit.gpgsign true
git config --local user.signkey yoda-gpg-sign-keyThen, for every new clone or new repo, instead of opening the file, or copying to the clipboard with a command line tool like xsel, xclip, wl-copy, etc., then pasting on the command line, we can instead point STDIN to the .txt file so that bash executes the lines from the file as command lines:
$ 0< ~/source/local/work-git-config.txt bash -x -
+ git config --local user.name 'Master yoda'
+ git config --local user.email yoda@theforce.dev
+ git config --local commit.gpgsign true
+ git config --local user.signkey yoda-gpg-sign-key|
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