Different .gitconfig for a given subdirectory?

Question

I use two different git emails, one for work and one for public projects. Initially I thought that I could create a separate .gitconfig with a different email in a folder where all my public repos are in, and that git would respect that, but alas it seems that doesn't work. What's the best way to easily setup something similar? I want to avoid having to specifically change the email in each public repo.

Answer 1

The best way to do this since git 2.13 is to use Conditional includes.

An example (copied from an answer here):

Global config ~/.gitconfig

[user]     name = John Doe     email = [email protected]  [includeIf "gitdir:~/work/"]     path = ~/work/.gitconfig 

Work specific config ~/work/.gitconfig

[user]     email = [email protected]