devoto13/gitname

Automatically set git config by remote

Gitname

Simple script to set user.name and user.email or other properties into git repository based on remote hostname or repository.

Setup

Put gitname.py into your path, for example as /usr/local/bin/gitname or ~/.local/bin/gitname:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alex-shpak/gitname/master/gitname.py > /usr/local/bin/gitname

Set executable permissions to the script:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitname

Put file .gitname into your home directory with content

[github.com]
user.name: Alex Shpak
user.email: alex-shpak@users.noreply.github.com

[github.com/alex-shpak/gitname.git]
user.name: Alex

Run script in git repository. As result local git config will be updated with matching values.
Note that repository specific config sections has higher priority.

user@host:~/Projects$ cd gitrepo/
user@host:~/Projects/gitrepo$ gitname 
Set user.name "Alex Shpak"
Set user.email "alex-shpak@users.noreply.github.com"
user@host:~/Projects/gitrepo$ 

Flags

$ python gitname.py -h
usage: gitname.py [-h] [-v] [-q] [-r REMOTE]

Updates git config based on ~/.gitname.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         print debugging output
  -q, --quiet           run without output
  -r REMOTE, --remote REMOTE
                        sets remote for lookup

Git hook

You can setup local or global git hook for automatic run. See git docs

Licence

MIT