Github prfile switcher

Intro

Sometime you may face the situation when you want to commit under different github profiles/accouts, e.g. at office you use company accout google-john-doe and at home you want to create super-secret projects under your persona github accout john-doe and also you do it all on MACBOOK.

Manual steps

To do the actions described above you need to:

• drop ~/.git-credentials folder
• rewrite ~/.gitconfig file like

[user]
        email = {email}
	      name =  {user}

[credential]
        helper = store

[push]
        default = current

• as far as you use macbook drop github note in keychain

All this stuff is a long stroy...so I introduce a small fency script written ib python 2.7 to do all this for you

How to use

• clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/dzhitomirsky/github-prfile-switcher

• add next env variables (potensially you will need sudo mode - so add them to ~/.bashrc and visudo)

HOME_USER 
HOME_EMAIL

WORK_USER 
WORK_EMAIL 

if you want to do it per terminal sessions:

export HOME_USER=super-user
...

• call the script

#to setup home env
python gitprofile.py home 

#to setup work env
python gitprofile.py work


#work env is used by default
#next line will give the same result as python gitprofile.py work
python gitprofile.py

Setup script to PATH to use from place

• create ~/bin (if it doesn't exit)
• add bin folder to PATH (if it isn't so), you can also make it in .bashrc to make it constant

export PATH=$PATH:/home/el/bin

• copy gitprofile.py to bin

cd github-prfile-switcher
cp gitprofile.py ~/gitprofile

• make it executable

chmod +x ~/bin/gitprofile

• Call it in any place

gitprofile work #work profile
gitprofile home #home profile
gitprofile #work profile by default