Git-User-Switch
Dev tools
git identity switcher
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
4 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Idea: 2 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Git conditional includes or per-repo config are simpler alternatives
From 3 comments
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_conditional_includes Is a lot easier then what you came up with.
Foxboron on HNThis is a great looking tool. What I have been doing by hand for some time is putting code for different customers in different directories and having a conditional in…
pavlo on HNLooks neat, but I agree with others about using conditional includes instead. Perhaps this tool could build on that?
zachrip on HN
Objections
Pulls in a large npm dependency tree for a small script
From 3 comments
This package installed 47.4MiB of node_modules. Yikes.
miguelmota on HNA 1000 line YARN lock file for something that would be roughly 20 lines of bash is amazing and terrifying at the same time.
Foxboron on HNWhat's the point of writing this simple tool in js? I'd like to use it but I don't have npm everywhere (and I don't want to grab a huge tree of dependencies just for editing a…
enriquto on HN
Could be written as a short shell script
From 2 comments
Could've been written in a 30–40 line shell script, heh.
Icyphox on HNLet’s see the 20 lines of bash that replicate all the features of this utility. Should fit in an HN comment nicely.
cdubzzz on HN
Requests
Add signingKey support
From 1 comment
Without using include in gitconfig: ``` #!/usr/bin/env zsh case $1 in foo) git config user.name 'John Doe' git config user.email john@example.com git config user.signingKey…
oefrha on HN
Centralized data file instead of per-project data.json
From 1 comment
This line makes it not very useful, because I have to re-add accounts for each project. ``` const store = require("data-store")({ path: process.cwd() + "/data.json" }); ``` I…
SparkyMcUnicorn on HN
Alternatives named
git includeIf conditional includes
From 2 comments
This is a great looking tool. What I have been doing by hand for some time is putting code for different customers in different directories and having a conditional in…
pavlo on HNGit has conditional includes based on path[1]. My configuration is like: On ~/.gitconfig ``` [user] name = personal email = personal@example.com [includeIF "gitdir:~/workspace/"]…
augusto-moura on HN
karn
From 1 comment
I currently use [karn](https://github.com/prydonius/karn) to manage multiple `git` identities. Works pretty nice.
mr-karan on HN
deepsource git profiles / git-profile
From 2 comments
git has a similar feature built in: https://deepsource.io/blog/managing-different-git-profiles/
archseer on HNHave seen more than a few attempts to solve this problem. Here's my version[0] and there's many more on GitHub. Wonder if there's an opportunity to unify our efforts & get…
KuiN on HN
direnv with GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
From 1 comment
I find it much easier to use direnv and set GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL in each of ~/work/.envrc and ~/personal/.envrc No need to reconfigure every repo this way.
0xEFF on HN