Partners

Partners is a convenient command line tool for switching between different git users, and combining them when multiple people are working together. It is a similar alternative to gitswitch.

Why?

Because switching between different user settings on shared workstations, especially when pair programming can happen quite frequently, and the existing tools don't address the problem very nicely.

We've used gitswitch for a long time, but it has a lot of problems:

• Requires cartesian join of all people who are meant to be pair-programming
• Defaults to repository-local switch, which is usually not what you want
• Slow to start, slow to execute
• Dependent on Ruby toolchain, since we primarily work in Ruby and switch Ruby version and gemset frequently, this is especially annoying.

All other alternatives we could find seem to be incomplete or unmaintained.

Installation

sh git clone https://github.com/elabs/partners.git cd partners curl -L https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sudo sh cargo build --release cp target/release/partners /usr/local/bin/partners

This will be easier once a stable version of Rust is released.

Partners is unfortunately still lacking an interactive setup method. Copy the example into your home directory:

sh cp default.cfg ~/.partners.cfg

You can examine this file, you'll probably want to change the domain.

Usage