Managing multiple Git accounts
Working with multiple Git accounts (e.g., work, personal, open-source) can be tricky. Here’s how I manage them seamlessly using conditional includes in .gitconfig.
Global .gitconfig setup
Add conditional includes to the global .gitconfig:
[includeIf "gitdir:~/projects/company1/"]
path = ~/projects/company1/.gitconfig
[includeIf "gitdir:~/projects/company2/"]
path = ~/projects/company2/.gitconfig
[includeIf "gitdir:~/projects/oss/"]
path = ~/projects/oss/.gitconfig
Local .gitconfig
In each project’s .gitconfig, specify the user and SSH key.
Here is example for ~/projects/company1/.gitconfig
[user]
name = username1
email = [email protected]
[core]
sshCommand = ssh -i ~/.ssh/company1_rsa
Git will help us to automatically switch configurations based on the project directory.