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Re: different name and email address depending on folder

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RERich Eakin <reakinator@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 8, 2011, 08:16 UTC
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<A1770B45-1A98-49C3-8CD0-C61A51FFB66E@gmail.com>
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I am currently using git-config in a bash script to set my user / email.  I was wondering if it was possible to tell git that if I am in a certain directory to use a specific user / email other than what is in my global config.  
On 08/01/2011, at 6:39 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
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> Hi Rich,
> 
> Rich Eakin writes:
>> I am using git for development with a company and myself on the same computer and the name / user fields need to be different for each.  As I keep all my company's repos in one directory and my private stuff in another, I was wondering if there is a way to tell git to use a separate user and email whenever I make commits from within a specified directory.  
> 
> Yes. Please see the 'user.name' and 'user.email' configuration options
> in git-config(1). You can set them globally or on a per-repository
> basis.
> 
> -- Ram
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  1. Rich EakinJan 8, 2011
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  3. Rich EakinJan 8, 2011
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraJan 8, 2011

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