Check the following comment in previous discussion about git capabilities to manage multiple identities to commit, authenticate and sign based on directories or remote repository URL. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800853
Organizing multiple Git identities
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#12I use podman containers with lazydocker. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker That way my work is a bit more separated. Good tips.
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#13How 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?
Different gitconfigs per path on disk, git automatically uses the right identity depending on where you are on disk. Allows you to separate all projects into different users and every repository within those directories will use the specified user.
Main/default config (~/.gitconfig):
[user]
email = git@victor.earth
name = Victor Bjelkholm
[includeIf "gitdir:/home/user/projects/user-a/"]
path = /home/user/.gitconfig-user-a
[includeIf "gitdir:/home/user/projects/user-b/"]
path = /home/user/.gitconfig-user-b
[user]
name = UserA
email = UserA@DomainA.local
[core]
sshCommand = ssh -i /home/user/.ssh/user_a_id_ed25519
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#14> This trick has simplified my project onboarding quite a bit. No more "You forgot to update your Email Address" requests from clients!
Does this happen in practice? Most commits on professional git repos that I work on are of the form @users.noreply.github.com.
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#15that conditional include is nice, didn't know about that.
i've been using direnv to set env vars, but i'll probably switch to the conditional include.
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#16And here I am modifying each .git/config by hand like a pleb
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#17I've seen a similar trick on HN, with some basic bash aliases:
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#18Nice git feature, I just configure my identities in .git/config (per repository).
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#19How 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?
Different gitconfigs per path on disk, git automatically uses the right identity depending on where you are on disk. Allows you to separate all projects into different users and every repository within those directories will use the specified user. Main/default config (~/.gitconfig): [user] email = git@victor.earth name = Victor Bjelkholm [includeIf "gitdir:/home/user/projects/user-a/"] path = /home/user/.gitconfig-u…
Does it work with subdirectories?
Re: Organizing multiple Git identities
#20How 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?
Same way