guil95

Handling Multiple Github Accounts on MacOS

The only way I've succeeded so far is to employ SSH.

Assuming you are new to this like me, first I'd like to share with you that your Mac has a SSH config file in a .ssh directory. The config file is where you draw relations of your SSH keys to each GitHub (or Bitbucket) account, and all your SSH keys generated are saved into .ssh directory by default. You can navigate to it by running cd ~/.ssh within your terminal, open the config file with any editor, and it should look something like this:

Host *
 AddKeysToAgent yes

> UseKeyChain yes

guil95

Managing SSH keys for Github and Gitlab

NOTICE: This guide will help you set ssh keys for GitHub and GitLab. However, this is not going to change your commit user.name or user.email. If you need to change those for specific repositories, just run the following commands while in your repository:

git config user.name "Your Name Here"
git config user.email your@email.com

For more info, see this answer. Also, keep in mind this only changes the .git folder inside your repository which never gets added/committed/pushed/uploaded.

I recently had to manage two ssh keys (one for Github and one for Gitlab). I did some research to find the best solution. I am justing putting the pieces together here.