Configure the Project Specific Git Author/User Credential

If you working for two projects (may be one for work specific and another personal project) and you would like to configure the Git Author/User credential different for both, I mean as a project specific rather than as a global one.

You may have configured or can set as global credential as:

# To check the git configuration
git config -l

# To set the global git configuration
git config --global user.name "RC"
git config --global user.email "rc@example.com"

Now to change the credential for a project. First go the the project branch and check what's the credential it has and override with new credential using below command

# Go to the project folder first and make sure you already have git initiated.
cd ~/apps/project_folder

# To check the git configuration
git config -l

# To overwrite the name
git config user.name "RC Pro"

# To overwrite the email
git config user.email "personal@example.com"

Then, you all set for that.

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