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Re: Organizing multiple Git identities

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Post by rkangel »

I have the email address problem, but that's the only paramter that needs to vary. I use the simplest way of handling this, which is this in my .config/git/config:

    [user]
        name = "My Name"
        useConfigOnly = true
Then, the first time you commit in each repo, you'll get an "Author Identity Unknown" message. Then just run `git config --local user.email hello@example.com` to set the config for that repo.

Re: Organizing multiple Git identities

#3

Post by l72 »

How do people handle multiple git identities with github+ssh? Since you always log in as the `git` user, you can't reuse keys. I end up with an ~/.ssh/config like:

  Host github-client1
    Hostname github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client1

  Host github-client2
    Hostname github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client2
Then clone using `git clone git@github-client1:username/repo.git` Is there a better way?

Re: Organizing multiple Git identities

#4

Post by Macha »

l72 wrote: post #3

How do people handle multiple git identities with github+ssh? Since you always log in as the `git` user, you can't reuse keys. I end up with an ~/.ssh/config like: Host github-client1 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client1 Host github-client2 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client2 Then clone using `git clone git@github-client1:username/repo.git` Is there a better way?

This is what I do.

If you wanted to have it all in your git config, you could set core.sshCommand to "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client", maybe combined with includeIf as in the article (since it's a glob match, you could match on the github org name).

Re: Organizing multiple Git identities

#5

Post by Tmpod »

rkangel wrote: post #2

I have the email address problem, but that's the only paramter that needs to vary. I use the simplest way of handling this, which is this in my .config/git/config: [user] name = "My Name" useConfigOnly = true Then, the first time you commit in each repo, you'll get an "Author Identity Unknown" message. Then just run `git config --local user.email hello@example.com` to set the config for that repo.

Didn't know about that, neat! I use multiple addresses as well and sometimes I forget to change when starting smth new. Not anymore :p

Re: Organizing multiple Git identities

#6

Post by qntmfred »

l72 wrote: post #3

How do people handle multiple git identities with github+ssh? Since you always log in as the `git` user, you can't reuse keys. I end up with an ~/.ssh/config like: Host github-client1 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client1 Host github-client2 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client2 Then clone using `git clone git@github-client1:username/repo.git` Is there a better way?

I used to do it that way. Recently learned this approach

put this in your ~/.gitconfig-personal

  [core]
   sshCommand = "ssh -i ~/.ssh/github_personal_ed25519"
and this in your ~/.gitconfig-work

  [core]
   sshCommand = "ssh -i ~/.ssh/github_work_ed25519"

Re: Organizing multiple Git identities

#7

Post by tgamblin »

l72 wrote: post #3

How do people handle multiple git identities with github+ssh? Since you always log in as the `git` user, you can't reuse keys. I end up with an ~/.ssh/config like: Host github-client1 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client1 Host github-client2 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client2 Then clone using `git clone git@github-client1:username/repo.git` Is there a better way?

I’ve done exactly this to manage a test user identity separately from my main GitHub identity, for debugging GitHub apps. I didn’t clone separately, though. I added separate remotes to the repo so I could push a branch to either `github` or `github-test`, and those were associated with the separate hosts/identities from my ssh config.

Re: Organizing multiple Git identities

#8

Post by functoid »

l72 wrote: post #3

How do people handle multiple git identities with github+ssh? Since you always log in as the `git` user, you can't reuse keys. I end up with an ~/.ssh/config like: Host github-client1 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client1 Host github-client2 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client2 Then clone using `git clone git@github-client1:username/repo.git` Is there a better way?

git config include.path "~/.config/git/id_example"

  ; .config/git/id_example
  [user]
    name = "git"
    email = "git@localhost"
  [core]
    sshCommand = "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_example"
Configurable per repo with many identities. Add a global alias to engage any identity at any time.

git config --global alias.as-example '!git -c include.path=~/.config/git/id_example'

  git as-example commit -m "my commit message as example"

Re: Organizing multiple Git identities

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Post by [deleted] »

qntmfred wrote: post #6
l72 wrote: post #3

How do people handle multiple git identities with github+ssh? Since you always log in as the `git` user, you can't reuse keys. I end up with an ~/.ssh/config like: Host github-client1 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client1 Host github-client2 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client2 Then clone using `git clone git@github-client1:username/repo.git` Is there a better way?

I used to do it that way. Recently learned this approach put this in your ~/.gitconfig-personal [core] sshCommand = "ssh -i ~/.ssh/github_personal_ed25519" and this in your ~/.gitconfig-work [core] sshCommand = "ssh -i ~/.ssh/github_work_ed25519"

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Re: Organizing multiple Git identities

#10

Post by sergiotapia »

l72 wrote: post #3

How do people handle multiple git identities with github+ssh? Since you always log in as the `git` user, you can't reuse keys. I end up with an ~/.ssh/config like: Host github-client1 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client1 Host github-client2 Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-client2 Then clone using `git clone git@github-client1:username/repo.git` Is there a better way?

Here's how I do it: https://sergiotapia.com/how-to-use-multiple-github-accounts-...
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