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Dev tools · March 7, 2026

I built a tool to manage work and personal Git repos

I finally got fed up with making work + personal Git repos work on my machine. Ever clone a work repository and accidentally make commits using your personal email? Or forget how to make your work repos use your work SSH key? Yeah... same. So I built the tool I've always wanted. GitPersona - a CLI tool for managing many git profiles on a single machine. Shoutout to my boy Codex for helping me finally ship this.

I built a tool to manage work and personal Git repos launched on March 7, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,631 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

🎭 Manage many GitHub accounts on one machine. Contribute to tomquirk/gitpersona development by creating an account on GitHub.

A stupidly simple CLI tool to manage multiple Git accounts on single machine. Clone, commit and push to personal and work repos with different accounts. Set-and-forget, no faff. With GitPersona, you'll set up a directory (folder) for each of your Git accounts (GitHub, GitLab, etc.). Each directory will contain the Git repos for each account. For example, your file structure might look like the following: code/ ├── work/ │ ├── important-work-repo │ └── ... └── personal/ ├── my-todolist-app └── ... Once set up, you're winning: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tomquirk/gitpersona/main/scripts/install.sh | sh Install a specific release: curl -fsSL…from github.com

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