Ability to add multiple Github accounts

[Dominiquini]

The feature request

I have 2 GitHub accounts, but I was only able to add one of then on the application!

Proposed solution

Would be useful if I can add another (or unlimited) accounts to the app and select the account I want in the drop down menu!

Additional context

No response

[pol-rivero]

Sorry for taking so long to respond! Seems like the notification got lost somehow. :(

I agree this would be a useful addition, but believe the technical complexity of implementing it is quite high. If you are willing to give it a try, feel free to send in a PR :)
Unlike the upstream repo, here the code quality requirement is quite low.

Edit: This upstream issue seems to contain some workarounds that you may find useful.

[erbanku]

Along with the above.

Feature Request: Support for multiple personal accounts in GitHub Desktop · Issue #20856 · desktop/desktop

Any way to coexist with official GitHub Desktop? · Issue #1 · simplespace-cat/GitHub-desktop

[erbanku]

Come across here via official repo forks.
It will be fine at this stage to coexist with the official release to achieve the multiple github accounts feature.

[pol-rivero]

@erbanku Coexisting with the official app should be relatively straightforward, but it will require a lot of testing to make sure nothing breaks.
This issue (#2) is about multiple accounts in a single app, let's discuss the installation of multiple apps in #13 to keep this one on-topic.

[ghedwards]

I have a fork of desktop with a branch for this, worked on making it work, now I'm refining it / simplifying it, have you started any work on this ?

[pol-rivero]

@ghedwards I haven't. Once you have something that works (or almost works), feel free to create a PR draft so that we can discuss the implementation details.

[ghedwards]

@pol-rivero https://github.com/garethedwards-tass/desktop/tree/multi-user there is a bug with one of the feature flags checks, but will fix that soon, it mostly works for projects where you're the owner / can clone using the GitHub projects UI. Needs some kind of prompt when cloning via GitHub.com or manual Url

[ghedwards]

Its not really working very well at the moment, but I'm going to work on it here https://github.com/desktop-plus/desktop-plus/tree/dev