I did it again! I checked out a new git project for work, made a change, and realized only later that the commit includes my personal email address instead of my work email address. 😢

The problem is that I configured my personal email address as the global default git config --global user.email "mpv@personal.com" and have been trying to remember to configure each work repo with my work email address git config user.email "mpv@work.com".

Clearly this is not working because I forget to do it every single time I clone a new work repo.

Luckily I found a great solution today. In your ~/.gitconfig file you can conditionally include another config file based on the path of the git repo. This allows you configure an email address for all repos under a given directory.

As an example, with the below configuration, any git repo under ~/work will use the email address mpv@work.com. Hope this helps you.

# ~/.gitconfig
[user]
    name = Michael Vosseller
    email = mpv@personal.com
[includeIf "gitdir:~/work/"]
    path = ~/work/.gitconfig

~/

# ~/work/.gitconfig
[user]
    email = mpv@work.com