Multiple .gitconfig

As a consultant, it's pretty common to juggle multiple clients throughout our workday—kinda like being a tech superhero, but without the cape (and the cool gadgets, sadly). With this tip, say goodbye to those endless local setups!

In the global .gitconfig do the following modifications:

[includeIf "gitdir:~/path/to/first-client/projects/"]
    path = ~/.gitconfig-first-client

[includeIf "gitdir:~/path/to/second-client/projects/"]
    path = ~/.gitconfig-second-client

Important

Pay attention slash(/) in the end of line, this assert that git recognize all sub-folders as mentioned in the documentation:

"If the pattern ends with /, ** will be automatically added. For example, the pattern foo/ becomes foo/**. In other words, it matches "foo" and everything inside, recursively."

Now inside of the defined files ~/.gitconfig-first-client and ~/.gitconfig-second-client you can add different configs like:

# ~/.gitconfig-first-client
[user]
  name = José Lucas
  email = [email protected]

# ~/.gitconfig-second-client
[user]
  name = Zevolution
  email = [email protected]
  signingkey = ssh-rsa AAAA...
[gpg]
  format = ssh
[commit]
  gpgsign = true

Now when you create a new repository, clone, commit or push a repo, inside the specified projects folder that we configure previously, Git will recognize the configurations by folder

This is very useful when we have something like the following structure:

📂 /
┣ 📂 professional
┃ ┣ 📂 clients
┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 client-01
┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 projects
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 project-01
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 controller
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 model
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 view
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┗ 📜 README.md
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 project-02
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 controller
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 model
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 view
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┗ 📜 README.md
┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 client-02
┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 projects
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 project-01
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 controller
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 model
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 view
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┗ 📜 README.md
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 project-01
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 controller
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 model
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣ 📂 view
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┗ 📜 README.md

By this way you don't care about configure scope local in all new projects!

zevolution/Multiple GitConfig.md

Multiple .gitconfig