Organize Git projects based on purpose

README.md

It is be possible to organize Git-cloned projects into folders based on work/personal criteria, for instance one folder could be completely dedicated to personal projects, while the other to work related projects.

We could have these two folders in our case:

• ~/projects/personal/ - personal projects directory
• ~/projects/work/ - work projects directory

Let's define configuration with sane defaults for git-cloned repositories outside of these two folders.

$ cat ~/.gitconfig
[user]
  name = default.user.name
  email = [email protected]
[core]
  autocrlf = input
  editor = nano
  longpaths = true
[pull]
  rebase = true
[init]
  defaultBranch = master
[includeIf "gitdir:~/projects/personal/"]
  path = ~/.gitconfig-personal
[includeIf "gitdir:~/projects/work/"]
  path = ~/.gitconfig-work

Personal projects configuration

$ cat ~/.gitconfig-personal
[user]
 name = personal.user.name
 email = [email protected]

Work projects configuration

$ cat ~/.gitconfig-work
[user]
 name = work.user.name
 email = [email protected]

Now, if you would push changes from the personal folder then git will use [email protected] as identity, and [email protected] respectively for work folder. For example:

Personal:

$ cd ~/projects/personal/xyz
$ git config --get user.email
[email protected]

Work:

$ cd ~/projects/work/abc
$ git config --get user.email
[email protected]