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I'm getting totally mad trying to use my two GIT users. Till today, I had only one, but now I create another one, personal and work profiles. I had two different ssh keys configured, and I've modified my .gitconfig in my user home folder with ifs condition, but nothing change... Some things I've tried (but nothing works):

  • Changing global user to new one. (In ~/.gitconfig)
  • Setting repository user (In /path/repository/.git/config)
  • Having if conditions in my home .gitconfig
  • Changing Visual Studio Code git user

I've also tried git config --list --show-origin but first user has been removed for every file shown in this list result. List returned:

file:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core/gitconfig    credential.helper=osxkeychain
file:/Users/elenitaex5/.gitconfig       push.default=current
file:/Users/elenitaex5/.gitconfig       pull.default=current
file:/Users/elenitaex5/.gitconfig       includeif.gitdir:~/projects/.path=~/projects/.gitconfig
file:/Users/elenitaex5/projects/.gitconfig      user.name=Elena
file:/Users/elenitaex5/projects/.gitconfig      [email protected]
file:/Users/elenitaex5/.gitconfig       user.name=Elena
file:/Users/elenitaex5/.gitconfig       [email protected]
file:.git/config        core.repositoryformatversion=0
file:.git/config        core.filemode=true
file:.git/config        core.bare=false
file:.git/config        core.logallrefupdates=true
file:.git/config        core.ignorecase=true
file:.git/config        core.precomposeunicode=true
file:.git/config        user.name=Elena
file:.git/config        [email protected]
file:.git/config        [email protected]:elenitaex5/homeManager.git
file:.git/config        remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

My error trying to git push:

ERROR: Permission to elenitaex5/homeManager.git denied to elenaphone.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

I can't find either... user named like the alias in any file. Does anybody knows another GIT user file? Or where it can be saved?

What I wanna really do?

Having two different git users and make commits in my personal project with my personal user and use work git user to make commits in work project.

Till now, I only needed to use one, but I need two now. I've tried everything to make the second one works, even change the global git user, but nothing works. Somewhere... there's a file having first one as priority and I don't know where...

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    Can you edit and explain more clearly what you want to achieve, and what's currently happening? Do you want to be able to switch between these two users, or change which one appears in some particular place? Showing exactly what settings you've edited in the files you mention would also be helpful. Commented Apr 30, 2021 at 21:29
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    And what is your goal? Do you want to enter the git-user and password every time you access the repository remotely? So you can switch between your two accounts. Commented Apr 30, 2021 at 21:33
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    Does this answer your question? How can I have multiple git accounts on a single development machine? Commented Apr 30, 2021 at 21:50
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    git commit uses the user.name and user.email settings to make commits. Once made, no commit can ever be changed (by anyone or anything, including git push) and the user settings are completely irrelevant. The git push operation does authentication (if it does any at all) using third-party non-Git software. The method by which this authentication works depends on both the protocol (https vs ssh for instance) and the OS, and on helper software. So you need to specify these. Commented Apr 30, 2021 at 23:14
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    It looks like you're using ssh to push (based on the URLs) and are on macOS (based on the XCode thing). macOS tends to use the keychain stuff. I'm not quite sure how to manipulate that the way you'd like. Commented Apr 30, 2021 at 23:16

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Thanks to @torek I'm find a solution in this question:

Store keychain credentials for multiple github accounts

I was trying use two github accounts with ssh keys, but in MAC needs keychain. So when a repository is cloned we need to do it via HTTPS including user and no vía SSH like this:

git clone https://[email protected]/youruser/project.git

Then I've tried a git push and IDE ask me for my password and do push action right.

Important note From August, 2021 Git no longer accept auth with password and HTTPS login will need personal access token. GIT Deprecation announcement

You can create new personal token in this link Creating a personal access token

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