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

Then you may setup a default identity with the following command (see Usage for more information):

$ git identity --define default Me [email protected]

Print the current identity:

$ git identity
Current identity: [default] user <[email protected]>

Change identity:

$ git identity user2
Using identity: [default2] user2 <[email protected]>

Listing identities:

$ git identity --list
Available identities:
[default] user <[email protected]>
[default2] user2 <[email protected]>

Adding an identity:

$ git identity --define <identity name> <user name> <user email>

Deleting an identity:

$ git identity --remove <identity name>