How to use two separate git profiles at once

Two separate git profiles simultaneously (e.g. Work and Home)

Summary

How use two separate git profiles:

• without risk of forgetting to perform a switch
• without even needing to make switches
• having company profile automatically being used in company repositories
• having private profile being used in any other scenarios
• configure it once, forget it forever

Solution

This solution assumes company has its own domain.

It binds work .gitconfig with company’s git remote URIs, and uses private.gitconfig elsewhere.

[user]
	name = Name Surname
	email = private@mail.com

[user]
	name = Name Surname
	email = work@company.com

## Default: Private
[include]
    path = .gitconfig-private

## Work: Company
[includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:git@company.com*/**"]
    path = .gitconfig-company

And that’s all.

No more private commits in company repo :)

Credits

Solution is based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/77728201/10699128.

Resources

• https://markentier.tech/posts/2021/02/github-with-multiple-profiles-gpg-ssh-keys/
  • Some more extended tutorial with different SSH keys

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Other considered solution

Probably worse than this one above, but still may be helpful in some scenarios.

# Company
# D:/
[includeIf "gitdir/i:d:/"]
     path = .gitconfig-company

# Private
# E:/
[includeIf "gitdir/i:e:/"]
     path = .gitconfig-private

# github
[includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:git@github.com*/**"]
     path = .gitconfig-private