Is it possible to have different Git configuration for different projects?

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There are 3 levels of git config; project, global and system.

  • project: Project configs are only available for the current project and stored in .git/config in the project’s directory.
  • global: Global configs are available for all projects for the current user and stored in ~/.gitconfig.
  • system: System configs are available for all the users/projects and stored in /etc/gitconfig.

Create a project specific config, you have to execute this under the project’s directory:

$ git config user.name "John Doe"

Create a global config:

$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"

Create a system config:

$ git config --system user.name "John Doe"

And as you may guess, project overrides global and global overrides system.

Note: Project configs are local to just one particular copy/clone of this particular repo, and need to be reapplied if the repo is recloned clean from the remote. It changes a local file that is not sent to the remote with a commit/push.

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