GH CLI multi-account switch

config.yml

git_protocol: ssh
aliases:
    personal: '!cp ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml.personal ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml && gh auth status'
    work: '!cp ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml.work ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml && gh auth status'

Example hosts.yml.personal content:

> cat ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml.personal
github.com:
    oauth_token: ghp_[…]
    git_protocol: ssh
    user: yermulnik

Example ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml.work content:

> cat ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml.work
github.com:
    oauth_token: ghp_[…]
    git_protocol: ssh
    user: george_yermulnik

Add GH CLI aliases programmatically (or manually copy config.yaml to ~/.config/gh/):

> gh alias set --shell personal 'cp ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml.personal ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml && gh auth status'
> gh alias set --shell work 'cp ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml.work ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml && gh auth status'

Example usage:

> gh personal
github.com
  ✓ Logged in to github.com as yermulnik (/home/yermulnik/.config/gh/hosts.yml)
  ✓ Git operations for github.com configured to use ssh protocol.
  ✓ Token: *******************

Use gh work to switch to your work profile.

Windows users: replace ~/.config/gh with C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\GitHub CLI (config.yaml goes to the same location)

ℹ️ UPD (20221012): gabe565/gh-profile provides alike functionality by means of GH CLI extension

where do I put config.yml?

@neeraj-htp Into ~/.config/gh/

thank you for the workaround...2 years on that issue and no update

God, thank you

Thank you
In Windows, config.yml exist in C:\Users\your-username\AppData\Roaming\GitHub CLI

Thank you!

#config.yml

tyvm!

Thank you! Save a lot of time to re-authenticate

doing the lord work, thank you sir

This is really dang helpful.

Thanks a ton!

thank you very much!

f*cking love you

This is the best thing since sliced cheese. I do hope this will be solved by upstream. Thank you!

So good!

Thanks!

This is true the love of my life

thank you T_T

Thank you very much. It works great. But I had to add gh auth setup-git to the aliases to make git recognize switched profiles. So, my aliases inside ~/.config/gh/config.yml looks like as below currently:

aliases:
    co: pr checkout
    personal: '!cp ~/.config/gh/hosts.personal.yml ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml && gh auth setup-git && gh auth status'
    work: '!cp ~/.config/gh/hosts.work.yml ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml && gh auth setup-git && gh auth status'

This method works like a charm with direnv.
Suppose you have

~/work
~/personal

Put .envrc in each dir and write the same thing.
ex.) ~/work/.envrc

/bin/cp ~/.config/gh/work.yml ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml && gh auth status

When you cd ~/work, the command above is automatically run by direnv.

https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.40.0

With the v2.40.0 release, multi-account support is introduced to gh for GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise and it is only the beginning!