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Kaushik Ray
Kaushik Ray

Reputation: 555

Github adding multiple accounts to same machine along with different usernames/ email with different Account commits

I have two github accounts which i am using on same computer. I have been successful in connecting and commiting the changes to both of my github accounts from same machine.

The issue I am facing is I am not sure the commits that are being done - how to automatically set different usernames email value to different Host names or github accounts

My new config file looks like - 

#Default GitHub
Host github.com
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Host github-COMPANY
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_COMPANY

If my try to commit to any public repo of my company it takes my personal github name configuration which I initially set up in global config file..

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Kaushik

Upvotes: 1

Views: 827

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323175

how to automatically set different usernames email value to different Host names or github accounts

This isn't related to your ssh private key IdentityFile that you would use to authenticate yourself to GitHub when pushing a repo.

Commits are done independently of any https or (in your case) ssh credentials.
Their committer / author names and emails depends on the global or local config user.name and user.email.

In each of your repo, type

git config user.name  theRightName
git config user.email theRight@email

And you will have the correct values for those repos.

Upvotes: 1

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