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Using gitconfig per branch

Our company uses many customized opensource project. Whenever I contribute upstream branch I have change to use my personal email/name. Is there any way to have gitconfig per branch?

For example what I want is

[remote 'gerrit']
name = 'Personal Name'

[branch 'origin']
name = 'Name in company'
Solution

  • You can use post-checkout hook for this. Run 

    $ touch .git/hooks/post-checkout 
$ chmod a+x .git/hooks/post-checkout

    Add contents to post-checkout script (edit names and branches as neccessary)

    #!/bin/bash
# $3 "0" - checking out file. "1" - checking out branch.
[[ "$3" == "0" ]] && exit 0 
branch=$(git status --short -b | cut -d' ' -f2-)
case $branch in
  gerrit*)
    git config user.name "Personal Name"
    echo "changed user.name to Personal Name"
    ;;
  master*)
    git config user.name "Company Name"
    echo "changed user.name to Company Name"
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Some other branch, what should user.name be?"
    ;;
esac