Multiple GitHub account support

[Xaroth]

Many of us have dedicated accounts for work and non-work tasks. However, VSCode's GitHub authentication does not seem to support more than one GitHub account.

There are currently two ways of dealing with this;

As mentioned in #71253, one can use git config settings for separate accounts. This is a bothersome approach, and in some cases requires extra steps for every repository you are trying to access.

Alternatively, one can sign out, and sign in on the other account every time one changes between working on work-code, and non-work code. Again, this is a bothersome approach, and prone to frustration as you have to check which account you've signed in to.

Would it be possible for VSCode to support multiple GitHub accounts, so that it can ask you which credentials you want to use per repository?

[vscodebot]

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Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• List "settings sync" in account usages when signing out (#109926)
• When update new version of VS Code, I lost the sign in account (#120458)
• can't sign in (#117289)
• Unable to switch github account in settings sync (#104595)

[JB-Scott]

This would be extremely helpful. Maybe you could list the GitHub account you want to use in a configuration file that is in the project folder. Or multiple GitHub accounts could be listed in the 'Account' context menu and you could select which one to use.

[ameeno]

Need this :(

[okikio]

Is this in the works?

[TylerLeonhardt]

The biggest problem here is that GitHub doesn't have a way to be logged in to multiple accounts. You are automatically logged in with whatever account you're logged into in your browser and that makes it tough to do this feature in VS Code.

[Juan321654]

what about some kind of script to switch accounts, which saves your info somewhere, and then just have in VScode a "switch account" button and it would automatically do it for you instead of manually logging out and in, kind of what Gmail has.