Git: Set local user.name and user.email different for each repo

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For just one repo, go into to the relevant repo DIR and:

git config user.name "Your Name Here"
git config user.email [email protected]

For (global) default email (which is configured in your ~/.gitconfig):

git config --global user.name "Your Name Here"
git config --global user.email [email protected]

You can check your Git settings with:
git config user.name && git config user.email

If you are in a specific repo which you setup a new user/config for (different to global) then it should show that local config, otherwise it will show your global config.

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