✅ Full Setup: Use gh to Push from a Second GitHub Account in VS Code
🔹 1. ✅ Install GitHub CLI
If not already installed, download and install from:
👉 https://cli.github.com/
Ensure it works:
gh --version
🔹 2. 🔄 Logout from First GitHub Account (if any)
gh auth logout
Select:
GitHub.com- Confirm
🔹 3. 🔐 Login with Your Second GitHub Account
gh auth login
Choose:
- GitHub.com
- HTTPS
- Login with your browser (select your 2nd account)
🔹 4. 🔁 Set the Remote of Your Repo to Use HTTPS
Inside your project folder:
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/SecondUsername/YourRepo.git
Confirm with:
git remote -v
🔹 5. 🧠 Optional: Set Git Identity for This Repo
git config user.name "Second Account Name"
git config user.email "secondemail@example.com"
🔹 6. 🚀 Push to GitHub
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push origin main
Since you're authenticated with gh, it will use your 2nd GitHub account.
🔎 To Check Logged-in User Anytime
gh auth status
