git-profile

A utility to quickly change your name and email in Git

Intro

Have you ever committed in your business repository with your personal email?

Do you use a shared computer with only one user and have to keep changing Git config to your name and email?

Yes? So this utility is for you.

You will be able to define multiple "profiles" which map to a name and email. You can switch between them in one command and manage easily.

All profiles are stored in the global Git config.

Note that the profile only matters when committing (and amending, merging..) but you can push to a remote with any profile in use.

Use make to build the man page. (requires help2man)

Then you can run sudo make install to install in the whole system.

Alternatively, you can install in your home with make install PREFIX=~/.local

If you don't want the man page, use make install-bin instead. Or just copy git-profile into your PATH

Git recognizes custom commands starting with git-, so you can use git profile [arguments..]

Running the utility with no arguments tells the current profile and checks if something is overriding it.

See details about each command with git profile --help (if you did not install the manual, use -h)