Multiple Git Accounts
03 Jul 2020 | gitOften times people have two GitHub accounts - one for work and personal. Good post on how to manage these accounts here. As mentioned in one of the comments in the same post, it is also important to configure the ssh-agent to make this work.
And in case one gets mixed up with the two ids (before making the above change), this StackOverflow answer provides a way to clean it up. If you correctly implement the above steps, your ssh config will look like the following
#Default GitHub
Host github.com
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
IdentitiesOnly yes
Host github-<COMPANY>
HostName github.<COMPANY>.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_<COMPANY>
IdentitiesOnly yes
In addition to the above steps, if there are any repositories in the your company’s Git that you have already checked out and after making the above changes, you would need to update them as well.
- The typical
remote.origin.url
for a repo looks likegit@github.<COMPANY>.com:<ORG_OR_USER/PROJECT_NAME>.git
. Change this to the correct URLgit remote set-url origin git@github-<COMPANY>:<ORG_OR_USER/PROJECT_NAME>.git
this will result the changed configremote.origin.url=git@github-<COMPANY>:ORG_OR_USER/<PROJECT_NAME>.git
- Change the email config to the correct email address
git config --local user.email <your_email>@<COMPANY>.com
if it is messed up due to the multiple accounts.