As I was following the tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-git-on-ubuntu-20-04 I wanted to know, how can we configure multiple usernames? Reason: Say one project is personal and requires myemail@gmail.com and other one is professional and requires myemail@company.com. How can I achieve the same?
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Hi there @yashtibrewal,
In order to set up your Git username for a single repository, you need to skip the --global flag and run the command inside the specific repository.
Let’s have the following example if you have 2 repositories: project1 and project2.
- First go to the
project1directory:
cd project1
- Then set a Git username:
git config user.name "Your Name"
- Then you could also check if it has been setup correctly:
git config user.name
- To set your email run:
git config user.email "your_mail@example.com"
Once you are ready with project1 use the cd command to access the project2 repository and run the config command again.
Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby
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