# Managing Git configurations

DevFeed: [Managing Git configurations](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/managing-git-configurations-27072.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://zsmb.co/managing-git-configurations/>)

Author: Márton Braun

Published: 2019-02-25T18:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [zsmb.co](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/zsmb-co.md>)

Topics: [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [command-line](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command-line.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [credentials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/credentials.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kotlin.md>), [marton-braun](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/marton-braun.md>), [repositories](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/repositories.md>), [signing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/signing.md>), [zsmb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zsmb.md>), [zsmb-co](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zsmb-co.md>), [zsmb13](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zsmb13.md>), [zsmbco](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zsmbco.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to manage Git configurations when using different credentials across work, school, personal, or client repositories. It compares a single global configuration with a global configuration supplemented by per-repository local overrides, and discusses commit signing settings.

## Source excerpt

We all use different git configurations for various reasons, and it's easy to get them mixed up. Here's a look at some ways of managing them better.