What do you when you have to manage multiple Git accounts on the same PC? I face the same situation for managing my work and personal Git accounts. Github recommends merging both the accounts and managing all your repos from one account.
What if you still want to manage them seperately?
You could follow these steps:
Set up one of the accounts (the more frequently used one) with the global config. Refer to this Github documentation. This will save you the pain of authenticating every time you want to commit something.
For your second account, override the global config by a local one every time you create a repo. While this might be a bit longer (2 extra commands for god’s sake!), it saves you from merging both the accounts and helps you manage both the accounts in a cleaner fashion. Following are the steps to override the global config by a local one:
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2✝ ~/takeradi/blog -- master± > git config user.name takeradi
✝ ~/takeradi/blog -- master± > git config user.email sampleemail@sampleemail.comNote: The above steps should be performed inside the newly created repo before committing/pushing anything to your Git remote repo.
Hope this helps!