How to set specific user settings for certain Git remotes?

Question

Suppose I have configuration like the following:

[remote "origin"]
        [..]
[branch "main"]
        [..]
[remote "alternative-origin"]
        [..]
        mirror = true
[user]
        name = My Name
        email = [email protected]
        signingkey = mysigningkey
[commit]
        gpgsign = true

How do I set alternative-remote to use another set of user settings?

larsks · Accepted Answer · 2022-05-27 15:38:29Z

1

The user settings have nothing to do with your remote: they only affect the identity that is used in your commit messages. By the time git is communicating with a remote server, those commits already exist and have whatever user/email/etc you were using at the time.

answered May 27, 2022 at 15:38

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2 Comments

Cris Over a year ago

Mmmmh I see, then I need to reformulate my question and relate it to commits instead of remotes, do you agree?

larsks Over a year ago

You are welcome to edit your question to more fully describe what you're trying to do. Maybe we can provide some suggestions based on that information.

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