Gitas – A tool for Git account switching

6 comments

• Kwpolska 2 hours ago

  Solving the problem of having a personal and a work GitHub account is really trivial without any extra tools. All you need is a dedicated SSH key for that GitHub account. (And why would you have a password for a ssh key on your personal machine?)

  ~/.ssh/config

      Host github.com-work
       HostName github.com
       User git
       IdentityFile ~/.ssh/work_id_rsa
       IdentitiesOnly yes
  

  ~/.git/config

      [user]
      email = work@example.com
  
      [remote "origin"]
      url = github.com-work:Work/Widget.git

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  • arccy 10 minutes ago

    If you don't want to bother with directories or want to use https instead of ssh, you can do remote url based dispatch in your gitconfig:

        [credential "https://github.com/org1"]
          useHttpPath = true
          helper =
          helper = /path/to/auth.sh user1
        [includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https//github.com/org1/**"]
          path = user1.gitconfig
          ; set name / email in user1.gitconfig
    

    where auth.sh is something that can produce the right token for the given user, e.g.

        #!/bin/bash
        echo "username=$1"
        echo "password=$(gh auth token --user $1)"

  • embedding-shape an hour ago

    Which works for a while, until you have a bunch of projects under various identities.

    In my main ~/.gitconfig I have:

      [includeIf "gitdir:/home/user/projects/embedding-shapes/"]
      path = /home/user/.gitconfig-embedding-shapes
    

    Where basically `projects/` follow GitHub naming with $user/$repo, so I set the git identity based on all projects within that user, rather than repo-by-repo which would get cumbersome fast.

    Then you just make sure you're in the right directory :)

• dvratil 32 minutes ago

  I used to have a git post-checkout hook that set the repo identity based on the repo origin url [0] on checkout - maybe there's some post-clone hook these days, but 10 years ago when I wrote it there was only post-checkout hook.

  [0] https://www.dvratil.cz/2015/12/git-trick-%23628-automaticall...

• rgoulter 2 hours ago

  For the use case of "use different accounts / configs for different directories", git's config has includeIf.

• 7777777phil 2 hours ago

  Lovley, was looking for exactly that for some time. Will definitely try it, thanks for sharing!