Organizing multiple Git identities

Post by dolmen » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 12:48 PM UTC

CamJN wrote: post #40

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 pretty much what I do: ssh config: Host github.com gist.github.com Hostname %h User git RequestTTY no RemoteCommand none IdentitiesOnly yes ControlMaster no Match host github.com,gist.github.com exec "~/Developer/C/getargv/bin/getargv -0 -s 1 $PPID | env POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 xargs -0 getopt '46AaCfGgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYyB:b:c:D:E:e:F:I:i:J:L:l:m:O:o:p:Q:R:S:W:w:' | perl -pe 's|.*? -- ||' | fgrep -e username1" IdentityF…

I have automated that a long time ago with a more reliable/portable solution: https://github.com/dolmen/github-keygen

Post by gilcot » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 1:41 PM UTC

diggan wrote: post #44

zamubafoo wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can also filter based on the remote URL! I find this much more useful than the location of the directory on disk. ; include only if a remote with the given URL exists (note ; that such a URL may be provided later in a file or in a ; file read after this file is read, as seen in this example) [includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https://example.com/\*"] path = foo.inc [remote "origin"] url = https://example.com/git*

Handy, didn't know about that, thanks for sharing! The reason for doing it by location is probably because my directory structure for projects look something like this: /home/user/projects/organization/project so github.com/victorb/neat-project would go into /home/user/projects/victor/neat-project So my solution is tailored to that structure I suppose :)

Also learning the power of includeIf

At home (I mean a personal box I for personal project and some other public contributions), my directory structure is like:

    ~/sources/forge/organisation/project

where `sources` has the same meaning as your `/home/user/projects` ; and your example will end up here to

    ~/sources/github.com/victorb/neat-project

The structure used has some great influence on solution adopted I think :)

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