How to Set Git Repository-specific User Credential Configuration

Sometimes, we may have more than one GitHub accounts, for example, one personal and another for a group.

If we are maintaining a particular repository of that group, we may need to change the default username and password, which is usually set for our personal account.

In that case, we can set repository-specific username and password so that it doesn’t cost us time while pulling or pushing repository updates.

In this post, I will show how to set repository-specific user credentials.

set repository-specific username/email configuration

1. change username

   git config user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"
   

2. change email address:

   git config user.email "MY_NAME@example.com"
   

Change it back to Ask Password

git config credential.${remote}.username yourusername

git config credential.helper store

References

1. Configure your DVCS username for commits
2. How to set up username and passwords for different git repos?