How to use several git configs on one machine and be able to separately sync settings to corresponding github account settings repo?

[d3lv1n]

Hi.

For example:

I have $HOME/.gitconfig:

[includeIf "gitdir:~/personal/"]
  path = ~/.gitconfig-personal
[includeIf "gitdir:~/work/"]
  path = ~/.gitconfig-work

$HOME/.gitconfig-personal:

[user]
  name = personal_user
  email = personal_email

And $HOME/.gitconfig-work:

[user]
  name = work_user
  email = work_email

I also have personal and work Sync Settings profiles:

settings.yml for personal profile:

hostname: ""
profile: personal
repository:
  type: git
  url: https://github.com/<personal-username>/editor-settings.git
  branch: main

And settings.yml for work profile:

hostname: ""
profile: work
repository:
  type: git
  url: https://github.com/<work-username>/editor-settings.git
  branch: main

And when I'm switched to the work Sync Settings profile and using Sync Settings: Upload (user -> repository) command in VSCodium, I want to push those work settings to my work github account only and of course, I want my work git name and email to be used from the corresponding git config.

Of course, this setup does not work, it is more for what I want to achieve. Is there a way to achieve this somehow not necessarily having the exact setup?

[daiyam]

The remote git create a local git in VSCodium's global storage. So the includeIf of .gitconfig won't match.

You could use a local git under your directories (ex: ~/personal/editor-settings). But you would need to manually push or add hooks to do the pull/push (not tested, what about the commit message??)

But the best would be to add options either directly in the settings.yml or to include a simple .gitconfig-personal file.

I will have to free some time since a bunch of feature requests are piling up...

[d3lv1n]

I see, thanks for the quick response, this is not urgent for me as I'm currently using VSCodium only for personal projects and VSCode for work related ones (due to some extensions I have to use at work), but in the future I would like to completely get rid of VSCode :).

Would be great to have some simpler solution to such problem, but thanks for the advice with the local repos.

[d3lv1n]

Should I close this issue or can it serve as a probable feature request in the future?

[daiyam]

You can leave it opened.