I know that many folks have a mix of corporate and private repositories on their laptops. By private, I mean their small projects, dotfiles repo, forks of public repositories, etc.

Here's an interesting guide on one of the ways of how to keep separate users (email, signing key, name) for different repositories.

This would also work if you have repositories backed by different provides. For example, if you need to push to both GitHub and GitLab and use different SSH keys for that.

Here's a condensed version of this article on StackOverflow.

#git