It took me a while, but I finally figured out how to switch my github credentials back and forth between my home github account and my work github account. Up until that point, I would often assign my work github user as a collaborator on my home repos. This isn’t as clean a separation as I would like, so once I could switch users I made sure I was the correct user before accessing my home or work github accounts. This worked fine, but it bothered me a bit that my work user was a collaborator on some of my repos and that I didn’t remember which ones.
So I read up on it and wrote a script (after setting up my OAuth command-line credentials), learning a few things along the way about the github API.
Using a desktop or laptop browser (don’t try it on an iPad or iPhone - it doesn’t allow you to copy the OAuth token), go to your GitHub settings page, create a new Personal Access Token, and copy it to your clipboard.
I’ve set up my script to use the GH environment variable. This keeps me from ever accidentally committing a script that includes my OAuth token. If you run this script a lot, you may want to add it to your .bashrc file but for now we’ll just leave it in the environment:
export GW=theOAuthToken export GWUSER=yourGitHubUserName
Just to make sure it works, we can use the curl command to get your user information (this is just like what the Github docs say).
curl -u $GW:x-oauth-basic https://api.github.com/users/$GWUSER
It should show you a bunch of JSON data describing your github user.
Just follow the directions here or, if you trust me a lot just run this:
curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/JohnB/7066490/raw/f1b1a57bf733e2d421d264ab8005e8578c4fe298/collaborators.rb | ruby
Assuming everything is set up, you’ll see the output from curl as it queries each repository and then lists the repository URL along with the list of collaborators.