Git Identity Manager

Ever find that managing multiple git identities is a pain? This git transport attempts to make it less painful.

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Requirements

• git 2.10 or later because of core.sshCommand.
• GNU bash
• awk (BSD or GNU awk recommended)
• openssh client with ssh-agent

bash, awk, and openssh are available by default on Mac OS X, BSD, and most flavors of GNU/Linux.

Installation

Add git-idm script to your $PATH and make it executable. Then, you can access the script via git idm. See git idm help for usage.

Uninstall

Remove all data stored in $HOME/.gitconfig related to git idm. This will not affect settings used by git.

git idm uninstall

Quick start

Add your first identity.

git idm add jcool --name "Joe Cool" --email joe@example.com --key ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Activate your identity.

git idm use jcool

Show which identity is active.

git idm active

List all known identities.

git idm list

For more commands see git idm help.

License

MIT License