git pushes with wrong user from terminal

Question

I have an issue with git and my terminal.

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When I push commits from my terminal, git says I

Answer 1

Just spent 6 hours figuring this out when trying to push to a new GitHub pages repo on a new account.

Even after setting the config user.name and user.email it would default to my main account.

This is because the ssh key will default to id_rsa (my main account).

To use the new account I had to run:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/my_new_key

which will then make git use the new key when pushing.