How do I push to GitHub under a different username?

Question

A friend and myself are sharing my computer. I\'ve made pushes to GitHub using the git bash shell on Windows 7. Now we\'re in a different project on that computer and I need

Answer 1

It's simple while cloning please take the git URL with your username.While committing it will ask your new user password.

Eg:

git clone https://username@github.com/username/reponame.git

git clone https://username@bitbucket.org/username/reponame.git

Answer 2

If you have https://desktop.github.com/
then you can go to Preferences (or Options) -> Accounts
and then sign out and sign in.

Answer 3

I setup an ssh alias using a custom IdentityFile and rewrote the origin to use my custom me-github hostname.

#when prompted enter `id_rsa_user1` as filename
ssh-keygen -t rsa

# ~/.ssh/config
Host user1-github
HostName github.com
Port 22
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_user1

#check original remote origin url
git remote -v
origin git@github.com:user1/my-repo.git

#change it to use your custom `user1-github` hostname
git remote rm origin
git remote add origin git@user1-github:user1/my-repo.git

Answer 4

git config user.name only changes the name I commit. I still cannot push. This is how I solved it, and I think is an easy way to me.

1. Generate a SSH key under the user name you want to push on the computer you will use https://help.github.com/articles/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/

2. Add this key to the github user account that you want to push to https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account/

3. Choose to Clone with SSH

You can push in as this user to that repo now.

Answer 5

this, should work: git push origin local-name:remote-name

Better, for GitLab I use a second "origin", say "origin2":

git remote add origin2 ...
then

git push origin2 master

The conventional (short) git push should work implicitly as with the 1st "origin"

Answer 6

The userid where the commit happens is stored in the config file.

go to the top of the repository vi .git/config

change the url line listed after "[remote "origin"] to have the appropriate userid