diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-site.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy-site.yml
index 185239a..1f65ea1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy-site.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy-site.yml
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
           author_email=$(git log -1 --format='%aE' HEAD)
 
           echo "Setting up author data to use for deploy commit"
-          git config user.name $author_name
-          git config user.email $author_email
+          git config --local user.name $author_name
+          git config --local user.email $author_email
 
 
       # Adds additional configuration files that are supposed to be included in the page deploy to the build directory
diff --git a/.github/workflows/recreate-site-branch.yml b/.github/workflows/recreate-site-branch.yml
index 5a1182f..6a7d6da 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/recreate-site-branch.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/recreate-site-branch.yml
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@
           author_email=$(git log -1 --format='%aE' HEAD)
 
           echo "Setting up author data to use for deploy commit"
-          git config user.name $author_name
-          git config user.email $author_email
+          git config --local user.name $author_name
+          git config --local user.email $author_email
 
 
       # Creates and checks out a new orphan branch used to publish the site