Multiple github accounts on the same computer?

Question

Trying to work on my both my actual \"work\" repos, and my personal repos on git hub, from my computer.

The work account was set up first, and everything works flawl

Answer 1

You should and must not push to the project with some common credentials. Once starting on a new machine use the following steps to setup and use correctly your gitlab credentials:

• create the pubic / private ssh keys on the machine
• copy paste the public key to the gitlab/github ui interface ( anyone hinting how-to do via the cmd line gets a free beer ... )
• make sure you clone the repo via the git and not http url
• set the git alias to avoid constant typing of the same prefix to the git command
• during git commit ALWAYS use the author and e-mail flags
• use git as normal you would do it

All this as follows:

 # create the public / private key credentials on that specific machine
 ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "<>@org.net" -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.<>.`hostname -s`

 # setup your public key in the gitlab ui 
 cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.<>.`hostname -s`

 # make sure you clone the repo via the git and not http url
 git clone git@git.in.org.net:org/some-repo.git

 # set the git alias to avoid constant typing of the repeating prefix to the git cmd
 alias git='GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.<>.`hostname -s`" git'

 # during git commit ALWAYS use the author and e-mail flags
 git add --all ; git commit -nm "$git_msg" --author "YourFirstName YourLastName "

 # use git as normal
 git fetch --all; git pull --all