Can I specify multiple users for myself in .gitconfig?

Question

In my ~/.gitconfig, I list my personal email address under [user], since that\'s what I want to use for Github repos.

But, I\'ve recently s

Answer 1

Another option to get git to work with multiple names / emails is by aliasing git and using the -c flag to override the global and repository-specific config.

For example, by defining an alias:

alias git='/usr/bin/git -c user.name="Your name" -c user.email="name@example.com"'

To see whether it works, simply type git config user.email:

$ git config user.email
name@example.com

Instead of an alias, you could also put a custom git executable within your $PATH.

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/git -c user.name="Your name" -c user.email="name@example.com" "$@"

An advantage of these method over a repository-specific .git/config is that it applies to every git repository when the custom git program is active. In this way, you can easily switch between users/names without modifying any (shared) configuration.