How do i switch between different users(github accounts) when pushing repositories?

You will need to use different ssh keys.

Read this full documents and follow the steps.

Multiple SSH Keys settings for different github account:

https://gist.github.com/jexchan/2351996

create different public key

create different ssh key according the article Mac Set-Up Git

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

for example, 2 keys created at:

~/.ssh/id_rsa_activehacker
~/.ssh/id_rsa_jexchan

Add these two keys to the ssh-agent:

$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_activehacker
$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_jexchan
you can delete all cached keys before

$ ssh-add -D

check your keys

$ ssh-add -l

Modify the ssh config

$ cd ~/.ssh/
$ touch config
$ subl -a config

Add the keys to the config file:***

#activehacker account
Host github.com-activehacker
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_activehacker

#jexchan account
Host github.com-jexchan
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_jexchan

Clone you repo and modify your Git config

# clone your repo 
git clone [email protected]:activehacker/gfs.git gfs_jexchan

cd gfs_jexchan and modify git config

$ git config user.name "jexchan"
$ git config user.email "[email protected]" 

$ git config user.name "activehacker"
$ git config user.email "[email protected]" 

# or you can have global 
git config $ git config --global user.name "jexchan" 
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

push your code

# add the code and commit it
git add .
git commit -m "your comments"

# push the code to the remote server
git push

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