Switch your Git identity between several options (personal, work, etc)

While working in my current company it often happened that in the mornings I was committing like crazy with my corporate email and in the afternoon, before I start working on personal projects, I had to edit my .gitconfig file to comment the company email and uncomment my personal one.

Programmers are known for their lazyness, and this is just confirming that fact. I got tired of doing that every day, so I programmed an script to do it for myself.

Edit .gitswitch file and replace it with the values you wish

Copy .gitswitch to your $HOME folder

cp .gitswitch ~

Copy script to a location where you can run it everywhere

cp gitswitch.sh /usr/local/bin/gitswitch

Run the command and choose one of the identities

gitswitch

In case (you don't trust me and) you want to check by yourself that it was correctly changed

git config user.name
git config user.email

Profit!

I added an alias on my system so I even have to type less. Maybe you want to make use of it too :)

alias gsw='gitswitch'