diff --git a/conf.example.yml b/conf.example.yml
index 4d6aaa4..48f7eb9 100644
--- a/conf.example.yml
+++ b/conf.example.yml
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ source:
         lastactivity: 1y # only clone repos which had activity during the last year
   any:
     - url: url-to-any-repo # can be https, http or ssh
+      user: your-preferred-user # the user to want to associate with this repo, default: git
       username: your-user # user is used to clone the repo with
       password: your-password
       ssh: true # can be true or false
@@ -289,4 +290,4 @@ metrics:
 # like "mirror all repos from github to gitea but keep gitlab repos up-to-date in ~/backup"
 # if cron is defined in the first config, this cron interval will be used for all the other confgurations, except it has one of its own.
 # if cron is not enabled for the first config, cron will not run for any other configuration
-# metrics configuration is always used from the first configuration
\ No newline at end of file
+# metrics configuration is always used from the first configuration
diff --git a/whatever/whatever.go b/whatever/whatever.go
index 2040477..67d72f8 100644
--- a/whatever/whatever.go
+++ b/whatever/whatever.go
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ func Get(conf *types.Conf) ([]types.Repo, bool) {
 
 			var auth transport.AuthMethod
 			hoster := "local"
+			if repo.User == "" {
+				if repo.Username != "" {
+					repo.User = repo.Username
+				} else {
+					repo.User = "git"
+				}
+			}
 			if _, err := os.Stat(repo.URL); os.IsNotExist(err) {
 				hoster = types.GetHost(repo.URL)
 				if strings.HasPrefix(repo.URL, "http://") || strings.HasPrefix(repo.URL, "https://") {
@@ -97,7 +104,7 @@ func Get(conf *types.Conf) ([]types.Repo, bool) {
 				Token:         repo.GetToken(),
 				Defaultbranch: main,
 				Origin:        repo,
-				Owner:         "git",
+				Owner:         repo.User,
 				Hoster:        hoster,
 			})
 		}