If you want to have private repositories at Bitbucket and public repositories at Github, then this is the guide for you.
This guide assumes:
If you want to have private repositories at Bitbucket and public repositories at Github, then this is the guide for you.
This guide assumes:
mix3d asked for some help using this guide with windows so here we go. This was tested with Windows 10. Run all commands in Git Bash once it's installed.
Github will be the main account and bitbucket the secondary.
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "username@email.com"
Confirm changes: git config --global -l
Right click on desktop and choose Git Bash here
Enter cd
to get to home directory (c:/Users/[username])
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your github email"
Enter passphrase when prompted
Save keys to: ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Repeat for bitbucket: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "bitbucket email"
Save bitbucket key to ~/.ssh/id_rsa_bb
Login to remote git provider and add ssh key:
clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa_bb.pub
Obviously run each clip
command individually.
Paste into text area, under ssh settings, in your github or bitbucket account. Also give the ssh key a title like "your name" Laptop.
I am using vim, enter your editor here if different:
vim ~/.ssh/config
Create your git aliases like so:
# Github (default)
Host gh
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
# Bitbucket (secondary)
Host bb
HostName bitbucket.org
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_bb
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_bb
Enter passphrase if prompted.
Check keys were added:
ssh-add -l
ssh -T gh
ssh -T bb
Github will be the main account and bitbucket the secondary.
Use Homebrew to install Git.
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "username@email.com"
Confirm changes: git config --global -l
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "github email"
Enter passphrase when prompted. If you see an option to save the passphrase in your keychain, do it for an easier life.
Save keys to:
~/.ssh/id_rsa
Repeat for bitbucket:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "bitbucket email"
Save bitbucket key to ~/.ssh/id_rsa_bb
Login to remote repo and add ssh key:
pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa_bb.pub
Obviously run each pbcopy
command individually.
Paste into text area, under ssh settings, in your github or bitbucket account. Also give the ssh key a title like "your name" Laptop.
I am using vim, enter your editor here if different:
vim ~/.ssh/config
Create your git aliases like so:
#Github (default)
Host gh
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
#Bitbucket (secondary)
Host bb
HostName bitbucket.org
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_bb
Note: On Mac OS Sierra onwards you have to add this to the top of the config file:
Host *
UseKeychain yes
AddKeysToAgent yes
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_bb
Enter passphrase if prompted.
Check keys were added:
ssh-add -l
ssh -T gh
ssh -T bb
This guide assumes you have followed multi-git.md
if on a Unix system or multi-git-win.md
for a Windows system and set up both accounts.
Create a repo online called testmulti (or one of your choosing), then in Terminal, create your repository:
mkdir ~/testmulti
cd ~/testmulti
touch readme.md
git init
git add .
git commit -am "first commit"
git remote add origin git@gh:username/testmulti.git
git push origin master
Add some text to readme on github.com, then:
git fetch origin master
git diff master origin/master
git merge origin/master
git push origin master
Create a repo online called testbucket and then in Terminal:
mkdir ~/testbucket
cd ~/testbucket
touch readme.md
git init
This being the secondary account, the username and email have to be overwritten, using secondary account values, at the repo level:
git config user.name "Full Name"
git config user.email email_address
This must be done once for every bitbucket (or secondary) repo, it is not needed for github (or primary) repos because the global is used in that scenario. There may be a cleaner way to do this but right now it works okay.
Just to be clear you do not need to change these values back afterwards because the global values (which apply to all future repos created) will be set.
git add .
git commit -am "first commit"
git remote add origin git@bb:username/testbucket.git
git push origin master
Add some text to readme on bitbucket.org, then:
git fetch origin master
git diff master origin/master
git merge origin/master
git push origin master
So you have a repository that already exists and you want to want to clone
it
but also you want to make sure when you push
it, the correct user, the bitbucket
user pushes. Let's say the repo is called booker
.
git clone git@bb:bb_username/booker.git
git config user.name "bitbucket user name"
git config user.email email_address
Remember, because we are using the secondary account, we have to over-ride the global configuration of username and email. The git clone command is using the ssh keyfile you set up earlier and is doing the transfer over ssh.
Now, change into the cloned directory and modify one of the files. Use git status
to check the current state, then use git add 'filename'
and git commit -m "commit message"
.
Finally push your changes using git push origin master
.
Hi, username You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
I get the above when I try to check if the keys are recognized(ssh -T gh
ssh -T bb)
What am I doing wrong
Thanks really helpful.
Excellent guide. Thanks.
Thanks for excellent guide.
Could you please add eval ssh-agent -s
to start agen.
Great guide, thank you.
FYI as per stackoverflow on github instructions 'master' should be 'main'. I was getting git error: failed to push some refs to remote
.
Thank you very much. Very useful