Setup your Git repositories to always use a specific identity based on the directory tree.
With karn, you never have to manually change the local repository configuration to a different identity from your global.
karn will change your repository's local user.name and user.email configuration if necessary, but will never modify your global configuration.
Head to the releases page to download pre-built binaries for OS X. Note that karn is currently only tested on OS X.
You can install karn using Go with the following command:
go get github.com/prydonius/karn
karn can be used in two ways!
Note: this method overrides the git
command with a function that runs karn update
before executing the original Git command.
Run karn init
to see exactly what the git
command is overriden with
If you're okay with the scary warnings above, add the following line to your shell startup script (e.g. .bash_profile, .zshrc)
if which karn > /dev/null; then eval "$(karn init)"; fi
Alternatively, you can run karn update
manually in a Git repository whenever you need to update your identity for that repository.
karn looks for a YAML configuration file in your home directory, ~/.karn.yml
.
A sample configuration looks like this:
---
/Fun:
name: Adnan Abdulhussein
email: [email protected]
/Projects:
name: Adnan A
email: [email protected]