github-multi-account

To manage multiple GitHub accounts with gh-cli, you can use wrapper scripts installed across your shell profile and PATH. This allows you to configure personal and work aliases, isolating workflows and reducing context switching.

Setting up personal and work GitHub aliases involves detecting multiple authenticated accounts and modifying your shell profile to create ghp and ghw wrappers. This automatically switches contexts to keep your workflows isolated.

Yes, you need PowerShell and gh-cli installed to configure multiple GitHub aliases. The setup detects multiple authenticated accounts via gh auth status and then installs the necessary wrapper scripts and profile modifications.

The gh auth status command detects multiple authenticated accounts to initiate the alias setup. It prompts you to identify which account is personal versus work, then applies the corresponding wrappers and PATH updates.

You verify GitHub aliases are switching accounts correctly by running gh api after switching contexts. This confirms the active account matches the designated ghp or ghw wrapper you executed in your shell.

Modifying the shell profile for GitHub multi-account automation ensures the ghp and ghw wrappers are always available in your PATH. This provides stable, isolated workflows without manually re-authenticating for each session.