Which works for a while, until you have a bunch of projects under various identities.

In my main ~/.gitconfig I have:

  [includeIf "gitdir:/home/user/projects/embedding-shapes/"]
  path = /home/user/.gitconfig-embedding-shapes

Then you just make sure you're in the right directory :)

The host shenanigans are simpler addressed with `git config core.sshCommand` which overrides the default key and selects the desired one on a per repository level.

source: https://erik.doernenburg.com/2017/12/using-multiple-github-a...

If you don't want to bother with directories or want to use https instead of ssh, you can do remote url based dispatch in your gitconfig:

    [credential "https://github.com/org1"]
      useHttpPath = true
      helper =
      helper = /path/to/auth.sh user1
    [includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https//github.com/org1/**"]
      path = user1.gitconfig
      ; set name / email in user1.gitconfig

    #!/bin/bash
    echo "username=$1"
    echo "password=$(gh auth token --user $1)"

Are there any good reasons to use multiple GitHub user accounts? GitHub organization membership and permissions are well designed in my experience, negating the need for multiple user accounts.

> (And why would you have a password for a ssh key on your personal machine?)

You're presumably joking? If not, could you elaborate?

For Claude Code users:

- using alternative host is not supported when roaming between local and cloud, fix is to add another origin you don’t use but use GitHub.com url

- CC uses gh command, which still needs account switch, this can be solved by add the switch to CC hook.

Is this that dropbox moment again? Anyway on Windows I keep a separate work and personal profile and GitHub auth doesn't go between them.

In some states, employers are required to provide this as an option, at least for some devices: https://www.driversnote.com/blog/state-requirements-cell-pho...

Obviously it should be everywhere, for all tools needed to do your job, but it's especially clear for tech where nearly all large companies will also exert control over the device.

You can manage multiple ssh keys via your ssh config too. But this does seem to make things easier, I always end up fighting with this when I need to do it once every 3 years

It's actually about git account switching as far as I can tell, which does make sense, you can have multiple "git" users indeed. Maybe it's the wording that is wrong? Read "account" as "user" and it might make more sense :)

  # in ~/.gitconfig
  [includeIf "gitdir:/home/user/projects/embedding-shapes/"]
    path = /home/user/.gitconfig-embedding-shapes

  # in ~/.gitconfig-embedding-shapes
  [user]
  name = embedding-shapes
  email = embedding-shapes@proton.me

  [core]
  sshCommand = ssh -i /home/user/.ssh/id_embedding-shapes

Yeah. Unfortunately, just goes to show how many people think Git = Github.

For me it's mostly just that the SSH performance on a large monorepo is much worse than HTTPS.

Quite nice. I had to split into two statements to make it work for both https and ssh because of a bug in git:

    [includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:git@git.work:*/**"]
      path = ~/.gitconfig.work
    [includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https://git.work/**"]
      path = ~/.gitconfig.work