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Asked: 2026-05-16T14:58:28+00:00

I’m in a bit of a bind with Git . I’m trying to execute

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I’m in a bit of a bind with Git. I’m trying to execute git commit but I need to be able to swtich between ~/.gitconfig1 and ~/.gitconfig2 Is there a command line switch – or anyway to have Git use a different gitconfig file then the ones found at /etc/gitconfig, ~/.gitconfig and .git/config?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found a way to execute this – it wasn’t elegant but it did work – and so far seems to be the only way to get this to work.

    Git uses the HOME path to determine where .gitconfig is. I was able to perform something like this:

    /home/marco/.silly/.gitconfig
/home/marco/.stupid/.gitconfig
/home/marco/.gitconfig

    And when executing Git Commit (which is the only command that requires the .gitconfig) I override the home path.

    HOME=/home/marco/.silly/ git commit -m "silly configuration"

    You can then use alias to do this easily

    alias sillygit="HOME=/home/marco/.silly/ git"
sillygit commit -m "silly stuff"
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