Git two accounts alias

Hello,

Recently, I was faced with a problem. How to manage two git accounts on the same computer? I explain myself, a "personal" account and a "work" account, on the same computer. Yes, I know that working on personal things with work materials is a bad habit ... but that's another question.

So, to get rid of just that (I did not invent anything, there are a lot of tutorials on the web), you will need to create a separate directory. One for work, one for the person.

Regarding git, you will have to manage your \ $ HOME .gitconfig like this:

[includeIf "gitdir:~/perso/"]
    path = ~/perso/.gitconfig

[includeIf "gitdir:~/work/"]
    path = ~/work/.gitconfig

[user]

So as you see, [user] is not define. So you'll have to define it in another .gitconfig. So in each directory, create a .gitconfig

in the /perso directory:

[user]
   email = perso@perso.com
   name = name

in the /work directory:

[user]
   email = work@work.com
   name = name

And that's it. Each time you'll go into the folder, your "git user" will change.

Bonus

Here is my git alias for log:

yes there is 3, 3 differents view.

[alias]
    lg1 = log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%Cblue\\ [%cn]" --decorate
    lg2 = log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%Cblue\\ [%cn]" --decorate --numstat
    l = log --graph --pretty=tformat:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%an %cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative

See you !

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