Handling multiple git accounts

Imagine the scenario: you have multiple github accounts, one for personal stuff, one for school, one for work stuff. Managing this stuff becomes a nightmare, and I’m sure y’all can relate to pushing with the wrong email, frantically having to amend, then git config user.email.

If you keep your separate “identities” separated via subfolder, there’s a nice solution.

In your main .gitconfig:

[includeIf "gitdir:/my/path/"]
    path = /my/path/.gitconfig

Now, in /my/path, create a .gitconfig:

[user]
    name = "Your name"
    email = "youremail@email.com"

Everything nested under /my/path will use those git configs.

Note this doesn’t solve the issue of “how do I authenticate to github with multiple accounts”, which… is its own can of worms. Maybe someday!