Git Identity Switcher

Formerly named Git Profile Switcher (ID exeltarkus.git-profile-switcher). The new extension ID is exeltarkus.git-identity-switch. Existing users: uninstall the old extension, then install the new one — both register the same command IDs, so keeping both installed causes conflicts. Your saved profiles are kept, since they live in settings.json (gitProfileSwitcher.profiles).

🇬🇧 English | 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia

A VS Code extension for switching the git profile (user.name + user.email) per project, with the active profile shown in the status bar.

Features

• Global activation: run Git Identity Switcher: Activation once and pick Enable. It applies to every project opened in VS Code with this extension installed.
• Automatic detection: when activated, the extension reads the git identity your terminal uses in this project (git config user.name / user.email). If it is not in your profile list yet, it is saved as a profile with the alias init (or init-<project-name> if init is already used by another identity).
• Add profile: enter an alias, username and email.
• Edit profile: change the alias, username, email or color. If the profile is in use in this project, the project's git config is updated too.
• Delete profile: asks for confirmation. Your projects' git config is not changed.
• Profile color: each profile can have its own status bar text/icon color (a preset or a custom hex such as #ff8800). Set it while adding/editing a profile, or with Git Identity Switcher: Set profile color.
• Profile icon: each profile can have its own status bar icon, picked from presets (briefcase, home, rocket, …) or any codicon name such as coffee or sync~spin. Set it while adding/editing a profile, or with Git Identity Switcher: Set profile icon.
• Open settings JSON: opens your user settings.json at the profile list, so you can edit profiles by hand.
• Reset: deletes all saved profiles (they are shared by every project) and recreates a single profile with alias init from the git identity currently active in the terminal for this project. Asks for confirmation first.
• Switch profile: click the status bar item (it also offers Add, Open settings JSON and Reset) (e.g. 💼 work - Git Profile) or run Git Identity Switcher: Switch profile. The identity is written with git config --local, so it only applies to this project.
• Status bar: shows the alias of the active profile. It turns yellow when the project's identity is not a saved profile or is not set. It also updates when you change git config from the terminal.
• Notification language: English by default; switch to Bahasa Indonesia with Git Identity Switcher: Language. Command names in the Command Palette follow the same language (e.g. Switch profile ↔ Ganti profile).

Commands

Where data is stored

Profiles and the activation status are stored in user settings, so after setting them once they are available in every project, as long as this extension is installed. With Settings Sync turned on, they follow you to other machines too. To turn the extension off for just one project, add "gitProfileSwitcher.enabled": false to that project's .vscode/settings.json.

Your global ~/.gitconfig is never modified.

Example profile list:

"gitProfileSwitcher.profiles": [
  { "alias": "init", "name": "Exel", "email": "exel@personal.com" },
  { "alias": "work", "name": "Exel", "email": "exel@company.com", "color": "#3b8eea", "icon": "briefcase" }
]

Development

npm install
npm test              # compile + unit tests
npm run package       # build the .vsix
npm run install:local # build + install into your local VS Code
npm run deploy        # publish to Open VSX

Press F5 in VS Code to launch the Extension Development Host.

To publish to Open VSX: npm run deploy. See docs/DEVELOPMENT.md for setup and publishing details.