Mount Git configuration

Mount your Git configuration into workspaces to set your Git identity and preferences.

The user.name and user.email fields are set automatically to the gitconfig content from a git provider that is connected to Che. This connection requires a Git-provider access token or a token generated via OAuth, and you must set the username and email on the provider’s user profile page.

Prerequisites

You have an active kubectl session with your namespace. See Overview of kubectl.

Procedure

Create a ConfigMap with your Git configuration:

kind: ConfigMap
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: workspace-userdata-gitconfig-configmap
  labels:
    controller.devfile.io/mount-to-devworkspace: 'true'
    controller.devfile.io/watch-configmap: 'true'
  annotations:
    controller.devfile.io/mount-as: subpath
    controller.devfile.io/mount-path: /home/user
data:
  .gitconfig: |
    [user]
      name = Your Name
      email = your.email@example.com
    [core]
      editor = vim
    [pull]
      rebase = true

Apply the ConfigMap to your namespace:

$ kubectl apply -f gitconfig.yaml -n <your_namespace>

Start or restart your workspace.

Verification

Open a terminal in your workspace.
Verify the Git configuration:
```
$ git config --list
```

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