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Git Identities

A git identity is the name and email your commits are signed with. If you work across personal and work repos, you can save identities and apply the right one per repository, instead of relying on a single global setting. Manage them at Settings → Git.

Add an identity

  1. Open Settings → Git and choose New.
  2. Enter the name and email to commit with.
  3. Pick how it authenticates with the remote:
    • SSH — point it at an SSH key
    • token — use a saved credential for a host
  4. Optionally give it a color and icon so it’s easy to spot.

Your system’s global identity is shown too, as read-only.

Apply an identity to a repo

Applying an identity writes it to that repository’s local git config — it only affects that repo, not your global setting. SSH identities also set the SSH command to use your key; token identities set up credential storage for the host.

You can import identities OpenChamber discovers from your existing git credentials and save them as token identities.