git-ssh

git-ssh is for switching among different github accounts, such as work-related account, personal account etc.

Didn't check existing solution; just create this simple one for myself switching between work-account and personal-account.

git-ssh <command>

Commands:
  git-ssh init               init ~/.git-ssh/config.json
  git-ssh ls                 ls github accounts in
                             ~/.git-ssh/config.json
  git-ssh add                add github account by answering prompts:
                             - 0. profile-name
                             - 1. username;
                             - 2. email;
                             - 3. ssh-private-key file path;

  git-ssh use [profileName]  use specific ssh name for git

Options:
  --version  Show version number                               [boolean]
  --help     Show help                                         [boolean]

How does it work?

Before switching github account using ssh, we need to setup GitHub with SSH or follow steps in this one.

Basically, this cli will init ~/.git-ssh/config.json, this file to store git-name, git-email, and git-ssh-private-key file path as an json object.

Example one is just like this:

{
    "kent": {
        "ssh_private_path": "~/.ssh/kentgithub",
        "name": "kent",
        "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    "aaa": {
        "ssh_private_path": "~/.ssh/aaakey",
        "name": "aaa",
        "email": "[email protected]"
    }
}

• git-ssh ls just gonna print out this json object in ~/.git-ssh/config.json.

• git-ssh add will ask you name, email and your ssh-key-path in your file system and push them into the config json object; please create your ssh key pair beforehand.

• git-ssh use can be used like git-ssh use kent in above example. under the hood, it simple runs three command to set git user.name, user.email and core.sshcommand in global scope:

git config --global core.sshCommand "ssh -i [the-ssh-path-goes-here]"
git config --global  user.name [name-goes-in-here]
git config --global  user.email [email-goes-in-here]

By running git-ssh use [account] in advance, now your can write comment with the account you want, and push, pull github repos with the correct permissions.