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Keshav Mohta

Git alias to switching account

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Git account switch alias

When you have multiple github account, for eg company github and personal on the same device then it is tedious to switch account, so here is the way to create git alias and switch from terminal

  1. Create git alias

below is the syntax to make alias global

Terminal window
git config --global alias.st status

you can see the same alias in you ~/.gitconfig file under [alias] directive

[alias]
    st = status

or using below command

Terminal window
git config --list | grep alias

Note: you can directly add here too but this is space sensitive and prone to risk

  1. Now create alias for your company and personal account as below
Terminal window
git config --global alias.company !git config user.name company_username && git config user.email company@email.address
git config --global alias.my !git config user.name personal_username && git config user.email personal@email.com

Note: add ! ahead to alias

Thats’all

  1. How to switch

Switch from company to personal using alias and check using user.name or email as below

Terminal window
git my
git config --get user.name
git config --get user.email

Bonus Tips

some useful alias from my workspace ( Ubuntu)

Terminal window
alias.http=config --get remote.origin.url
alias.hide=update-index --assume-unchanged
alias.unhide=update-index --no-assume-unchanged
alias.hidden=!git ls-files -v | grep ^h

or to edit gitconfig file using vim editor

Terminal window
git config --global core.editor "vim"
git config --edit --global

Thanks