How to use 2 different global git configs?

Question

I am using the github client and sourcetree by atlassian. I wanted to use 2 different global git configs for each software.

At the moment I have to edit and check every commit my autor and email name.

So how can I specify a unique config for each git program that I use.

king regards

Answer 1

Each repo has its own configuration, which can override the system-wide and global configurations. Just enter each repo and

git config user.name xxxx
git config user.email yyyy

Note the lack of the --global option.

Answer 2

I was inspired by the answer of SzG. That is my final solution:

At first have a look for the global git config. You find the .gitconfig inside your home directory (on windows: %userprofile%\.gitconfig, on linux: ~/.gitconfig).

I created 2 Batches in the directory of the global git config file.

GitHub.bat & SourceTree.bat

GitHub.bat

@echo off
cd /D %userprofile%
del .gitconfig
copy GitHub.bat .gitconfig

GitHub

[user]
    name = Name1
    email = email1@example.com
[core]
    autocrlf = true
    excludesfile = C:\\Users\\{windowsusername}\\Documents\\gitignore_global.txt

SourceTree.bat

@echo off
cd /D %userprofile%
del .gitconfig
copy SourceTree.bat .gitconfig

SourceTree

[user]
    name = Name2
    email = email2@example.com
[core]
    autocrlf = true
    excludesfile = C:\\Users\\{windowsusername}\\Documents\\gitignore_global.txt

So this is working fine, just have to run one of these batches before commiting and i can use 2 different autor names with different email.