https://brisberg.dev/wiki/version-control/git/Recent content in Git on Brandon RisbergHugoen-ushttps://brisberg.dev/wiki/version-control/git/git-on-mac/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://brisberg.dev/wiki/version-control/git/git-on-mac/<p>I am investigating how to support automatic authentication for two different GitHub logins.</p> <h2 id="apples-forked-version-of-git">Apple&rsquo;s forked version of Git</h2> <p>Apple maintains their own version of Git for deployment on their machines. One of the things this does is force include a <code>gitconfig</code> file. (located at <code>/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core/gitconfig</code>)</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>$ git --version </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#75715e"># git version 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)</span> </span></span></code></pre></div><p>This config sets the <code>credential.helper</code> field to <code>osxkeychain</code> to use the built-in OSX keychain helper.</p> <p>Normally this would be fine for a single GitHub login across your whole system, but there is no way to override this.</p>