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When using two GitHub accounts the gh cli gives very easy workflow from the cli.

<p>When using two GitHub accounts the gh cli gives very easy <code>gh auth switch</code> workflow from the cli.</p> <div class="admonition hint"> <p class="admonition-title">from the docs</p> </div> <p>gh auth switch –help Switch the active account for a GitHub host.</p> <p>This command changes the authentication configuration that will be used when running commands targeting the specified GitHub host.</p> <p>If the specified host has two accounts, the active account will be switched automatically. If there are more than two accounts, disambiguation will be required either through the <code>--user</code> flag or an interactive prompt.</p> <pre class="chroma"><code><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="c1"># list accounts</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">gh auth status </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="c1"># switch accounds (interactive if more than 2, i&#39;ve never seen this personally)</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">gh auth switch </span></span></code></pre> Waylon Walker hello@waylonwalker.com https://waylonwalker.com