Why your git email address matters →

Sunday, April 10th, 2022 source: juliaferraioli.com

Julia Ferraioli:

We all operate in different contexts. I have personal, volunteer, side-project, and corporate contexts – and different email addresses associated with each of them. The email address that I use for a specific commit tells the project in which context my contribution has been made.

So in addition to (or instead of) running setting a global configuration for your email address, you can run:

$ git config user.email yourname@company.com

within your clone of a specific repository to configure the email address that your commits should use. If you have set a global user.email as well, that’s what commits will use if you haven’t set one within a repository (git-scm documentation that describes this behavior).

This is certainly a good habit to pick up. I would add that taking the time to setup GPG keys to ensure your commits are verified is just as important too.

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