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Multiple GitHub accounts on one laptop

Simon Osipov on January 18, 2022

Imagine the next situation: You have only one laptop You have your personal GitHub account Your employer stores code on GitHub as well You need t...
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Bobby Iliev •

This is super handy! Very well explained!

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Simon Osipov •

Thanks a lot!

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Anthony •

Thanks. What if you have 1 using GitHub and 1 using GitLab?
I'm guessing it's the same principle.

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Simon Osipov •

No difference, but you will need to replace
insteadOf part with url pattern from GitLab (assuming this one is work)

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Michael •

Very cool, I'm still a command line type person and having this would be great when I want to do some personal stuff but keep it in my own repos.

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Jon Randy 🎖️ •

GUI clients like GitKraken also make this ridiculously easy

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Simon Osipov •

IF you use GUI clients)
In my case, I am "one IDE" kinda guy, so I have terminal and VS Code. )

But thanks for the comment!

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Harshit Kumar •

Works like a charm.

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Jeff Edmondson •

Just make sure to change the remote "origin" url in the YOUR_PROJECT/.git/config file

[remote "origin"]
    url = git@github-work:...
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webstuff •

okay. You could've explained it better but...
So what you're saying is: you make those ssh files and in each project you create a .gitconfig and when you go all git add . / git commit -m"smthing" git push origin smthing .... IT WILL go to the correct repos?
OR you have to chnage your config email and username for each add/pull/push?

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Simon Osipov • • Edited

No, sir. Sorry for that, will try to explain better.
You do this once:

  • You modify global config for ssh, so you have separate accounts for work and personal
  • You create working dir, where you will store all working repos
  • You modify global git config
  • You modify git config in repository you created step above

If you do clone, pull, push inside this repo, you will use WORK account automatically (no need to switch or any other things, just git pull/clone/push

If you clone/push/pull outside this repo - it will use PERSONAL account

So you dont need to modify gitconfig for every working repo. as long as you have
~/path/work_dir/repo1
~/path/work_dir/repo2
~/path/work_dir/repo3

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Dennis Tabaldo • • Edited

thanks, I usualy change .git/config? to add multiple branch, like github and azure