Managing your identity in Git

README

Install
=======

    # cp git-identity /usr/lib/git-core/
    # chmod +x /usr/lib/git-core/git-identity
    $ git config --global profile.default.name "Your name"
    $ git config --global profile.default.email "Your email"
    $ git config --global user.profile default

Usage
=====

Printing the current profile:

    $ git identity
    Current profile: user [[email protected]]

Changing profile:

    $ git identity user2
    Using profile user2: user2 [[email protected]]

Adding a profile:

    $ git config --global profile.user3.name user3
    $ git config --global profile.user3.email [email protected]

Deleting a profile:

    $ git config --global --remove-profile profile.user3

git-identity.sh

#!/bin/bash

. /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-setup

lookup () {
  local profile=$1
  local key=$2

  git config -z profile.$profile.$key
}

switch_id () {
  local profile=$1
  local name="$(lookup $profile name)"
  local email="$(lookup $profile email)"

  echo "Using profile $1: $name [$email]"
  git config user.profile "$profile"
  git config user.name "$name"
  git config user.email "$email"
}

print_id () {
  local profile="$(git config user.profile)"
  echo "Current profile: $(lookup $profile name) [$(lookup $profile email)]"
}

PROFILE="$1"

case $PROFILE in
  "")
    print_id
    ;;
  *)
    switch_id $PROFILE
    ;;
esac

LICENSE

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                    Version 2, December 2004

 Copyright (C) 2012 François Vaux <[email protected]>

 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
 copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
 as the name is changed.

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