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I've followed the steps from here to create another git user because I want to set up multiple contributors to learn about git. Below is what I did

  1. create 2nd SSH key
  2. create 2nd github account and add SSH key
  3. ssh-add ~/.ssh/second_rsa

  4. in ~/.ssh/config
    Host stackjlei.github.com HostName github.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/second_rsa

  5. I git cloned a repo that I was original author of with git clone [email protected]/Jacky-Lei/banana-app.git but it says repo doesn't exist so I just git cloned it like normal

  6. I made changes, added and committed. And then git config --local user.email "[email protected]" and git config --local user.name "stackjlei"

  7. I pushed but the repo still shows me as my original contributor (jacky-lei) account rather than my second account (stackjlei). How do I fix this?

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  • You need to put the different host names in the repositories settings for the remotes (or add git remote add). You can even modify the .git/config file by hand to change the URLs. I am however not sure if it will work (in your case I guess using ssh://git@... should work for clone). Might be easier to not use key based auth but https passwords. Commented Nov 1, 2016 at 2:03
  • what else do I need to change the URLs? or how do I use https passwords? Commented Nov 1, 2016 at 2:07
  • i fixed it by changing my local name & email before i made any changes and commits rather than changing it right before pushing Commented Nov 1, 2016 at 2:17
  • This (changes to user.email/name before commit) will show different authors but still use the same commiter account. But I guess for playing around that is enough. Commented Nov 5, 2016 at 18:26
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