Git Single Machine Multiple Accounts

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  • Create an config file in ~/.ssh
  • Sample file 
    host github.com
    HostName github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github-keys/personal

host obsidian-backup
    HostName github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github-keys/obsidian-backup


host project-cool
    HostName github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github-keys/cool-project
  • Generate key and upload the .pub part to GitHub accounts.
You would be thinking why can't I use the same public key for all the hosts?

GitHub doesn't allow to you have the same public key across all the repositories globally

  • Cloning personal projects : git clone git@github.com:UserName/RepoName.git

  • Cloning project-cool projects : git clone git@project-cool:UserName/RepoName.git

  • Use ssh for pushing instead of your gpg key authentication 

    git remote set-url origin git@project-cool:project-cool/obsidian-publish-action.git
git remote show origin

Last updated: 2022-06-12