alt Hacker NewsSolving 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
[user]
email = [email protected]
[remote "origin"]
url = github.com-work:Work/Widget.gitReplies
The host shenanigans are simpler addressed with `git config core.sshCommand` which overrides the default key and selects the desired one on a per repository level.
source: https://erik.doernenburg.com/2017/12/using-multiple-github-a...
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
#!/bin/bash
echo "username=$1"
echo "password=$(gh auth token --user $1)"Are there any good reasons to use multiple GitHub user accounts? GitHub organization membership and permissions are well designed in my experience, negating the need for multiple user accounts.
> (And why would you have a password for a ssh key on your personal machine?)
You're presumably joking? If not, could you elaborate?
For Claude Code users:
- using alternative host is not supported when roaming between local and cloud, fix is to add another origin you don’t use but use GitHub.com url
- CC uses gh command, which still needs account switch, this can be solved by add the switch to CC hook.
Is this that dropbox moment again? Anyway on Windows I keep a separate work and personal profile and GitHub auth doesn't go between them.
Which works for a while, until you have a bunch of projects under various identities.
In my main ~/.gitconfig I have:
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 :)