Setup multiple github emails on a single machine

How to handle multiple github emails linked to the same github account, for example if you have a personal email used to manage your personal projects and you have a professional email for work or something else, it’s ideal to use each account on the correct place, but sometimes it can be tedious!

Directory Separatation

While you could configure the email and username for each repo:

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git config user.name "personal"
git config user.email "personal@email.com"

a directory separatation is a better option in this case, what I mean here is that you need to create /work and /personal or just /work and consider any other directory as personal.

Change the global configs in : ~/.gitconfig to use another .gitconfig in the work directory:

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; the global config
[user]
	name = personal
	email = personal@email.com
	editor = 1

; the work dir
[includeIf "gitdir:~/work/"]
    path = ~/work/.gitconfig

[credential]
	helper = cache --timeout=3600

[core]
	editor = nvim
	autocrlf = input

Add the specific configs in the ~/work/.gitconfig:

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[user]
	name = Work
	email = work@email.com
	editor = 1
    signingkey = 57A1D460DSFMK210
[commit]
	gpgsign = true

Bonus : Signing the commits

Follow the documentations from github to sign your commits and get the verified badge: here

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# cache for 2 days
default-cache-ttl 172800
max-cache-ttl 172800