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I have a personal computer that I also use for work. For work, I have to upload files to a large amount of github repos and in order to do so using my work github account, I need to pass git config user.name [USERNAME] and git config user.email [EMAIL] in every repo. I have all these repos located within a single parent directory (which is not a repo). Is there any way for me to set the git username and git email for every github repo within this parent directory?

DataOrc
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    I guess your best bet would be creating a bash script that iterates over subdirectories and sets name and email for each repo. – Konstantin Jul 29 '17 at 19:14
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    Why not to set it globally? – phd Jul 29 '17 at 22:31
  • See also [Is it possible to have different Git configuration for different projects?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8801729/is-it-possible-to-have-different-git-configuration-for-different-projects). – aruku7230 Oct 21 '22 at 08:58

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You could make your parent directory the "superproject" and all repositories submodules of this superproject. Please see Git Submodules

After configuring this you can loop through your submodules as followed:

git submodule foreach git config user.name  "User Name"
git submodule foreach git config user.email "user@abc.com"
Andrejs Cainikovs
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Swifting
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If you want the same name for every project then set it globally:

$ git config --global --add user.name "Your name"
$ git config --global --add user.email "your_em@il.com"

If you want to set different name and email for different projects do the following.

Find all .git/config files and store them in the file:

$ for gitdirr in `find . -type d -name ".git"` ; do echo $gitdirr/config ; done > gitconfigs

Find all git configs containing [user] section, probably they will have name and email set, so you have to change them to the ones you want:

$ grep -li "\[user\]" `cat gitconfigs`

Open the files and check if names are the ones you want, change if not.

Find files which do not contain user section:

$ grep -Li "\[user\]" `cat gitconfigs`

Open each file and add user section with name and email keys with values specific for the project:

[user]
    name = Your name for the project
    email = Your em@il for the project
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