Tangible Bytes

If you have multiple account with Gitlab or Github you will find that you can’t use teh same ssh key for both accounts.

The nicest way I have found of configuring this is by putting the different projects in a subfolder - and then using a gitconfig conditional include

I generate a second ssh key, specifying the filename ~/.ssh/id_tangible

In the conditional include the sshCommand option tells git to use an additional parameter which specifies they key to use.

I also set a different email address for my git commits

#~/.gitconfig
[user]
        email = me@default
        name = Sean Burlington
[includeIf "gitdir:/home/sean/work/gitlab.com/tangiblebytes/"]
    path=.gitconfig-personal

#~/.gitconfig-personal
[user]
    email = me@tangible
[core]
    sshCommand = "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_tangible"

Confirm it is working via

git config --includes -l

and it should tell you the values for the repo you are in

Note that variables which are overridden wil be show twice - the later value is the one that is used.