You often use Git in different contexts, like at work and for open-source projects. You may then want to use different user names/email pairs to identify yourself.
This is not an important part of your work, and setting this up should be really
fast. That's where git-identity comes in: setting up your identity information only takes one command with it.
Simply link or copy the git-identity in a directory that's in your PATH, Git
will pick it up and make it available as git identity.
$ ln -s git-identity ~/bin/git-identity
Under Windows, go to System > Advanced System Parameters > Environment Variable. Find the "Path" entry under system variables and add the path to where you downloaded git-identity.
Then you may setup a default identity with the following command (see Usage for more information):
$ git identity --define default Me me@example.org
To get bash completion, just source the git-identity.bash-completion file
in your initialization scripts, such as .bashrc.
To get zsh completion, move the git-identity.zsh-completion file to a location present in your $FPATH, renaming the file to _git-identity.
You can also use basher to install git-identity:
$ basher install madx/git-identity
Add an identity:
$ git identity --define <identity name> <user name> <user email>
Add a GPG key to the identity (see GPG specific information below)
$ git identity --define-gpg <identity name> <gpgkeyid>
Added GPG key DA221397A6FF5EZZ to [default] user <user@example.org> (GPG key: DA221397A6FF5EZZ)
Print the current identity:
$ git identity
Current identity: [default] user <user@example.org>
Change identity:
$ git identity user2
Using identity: [default2] user2 <user2@example.org>
List all identities:
$ git identity --list
Available identities:
[default] user <user@example.org>
[default2] user2 <user2@example.org>
Listing raw identities:
$ git identity --list-raw
default
default2
Deleting an identity:
$ git identity --remove <identity name>
Printing the raw identity (for use in scripts)
$ git identity --print
$ git identity --print <identity name>
More information about how to use GPG with git-identity may be found in GPG_SETUP.md