Config for folder with repos

Question

I don't like git config --global because I use more accounts.

I also don't like setting config every I wanna clone some repo.

I am looking for something like this:

folder01/
    ..there is one clonned repo..
folderO2/
    ..there is two clonned repo..

git config <folder> user.email ...

I need repos in folder inherit the config from parent folder.

Both folder aren't repos, just folder.

I clone repos into some folder and sometimes I remove some repo.

Thanks a lot!

Possible duplicate of [Can I specify multiple users for myself in .gitconfig?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4220416/can-i-specify-multiple-users-for-myself-in-gitconfig) — phd, Sep 13 '19 at 11:24
@dan1st Conditional includes described at the linked Q perfectly solve that. And in a much better way than regularly run a script tat could easily be forgotten. — phd, Sep 13 '19 at 20:23
@dan1st It does. There could be many includes with different conditions. There could be recursive includes. — phd, Sep 14 '19 at 11:39

dan1st · Answer 1 · 2019-09-13T11:20:22.157

If you only want one config for your system, you could just configure it with git config --system (as admin/root).

If you want to use the same config for multiple users (but not all users), you can create this config and a link to that config in the home directory of each user.

There is no possibility do that directly(at least I don't know any).

However, there are a few interresting things:

The command git config has a --file option. With this, you can configure seperate config files.
You can set the config file for you git config --local include.path "<config file>".

With that, you can create a new config file for your directory and when you create a directory, you can just set the config file of a directory using git config --local include.path "<config file>".

You can also automate that by writing a script, that automatically scannes all directories for e.g. a config file and executes git config --local include.path "<config file>" if it finds any files.

That script could look like that(if you use linux/bash):

#!/bin/bash

git init

initDir="$PWD"

while [ "$PWD" != "/" -a ! -f "./.gitconfig"  ] ; do
        cd ..
done
if [[ -f "./.gitconfig" ]]; then
        configFile="$PWD/.gitconfig"
        cd $initDir
        git config --local include.path "$configFile"
fi

Doesn't answer the part "*I also don't like setting config every I wanna clone some repo.*" — phd, Sep 13 '19 at 17:11
@phd The script can be easily adapted. It is possible to e.g. greate a `gitclone` script that does the same thing with `git clone`. — dan1st, Sep 13 '19 at 18:35

Config for folder with repos

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