Re: Wish: make commiter email address configurable per-repo

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Jan 7, 2011, 13:20 UTC
Message-ID: <201101071420.40570.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <ig73o1$lbg$1@dough.gmane.org>

Stephen Kelly wrote:

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> So for some git repos in KDE which I work on on work time, I'd like to set a 
> different committer address. I can't just set GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL or 
> whatever in my bashrc, because in other repos I want to use a different 
> committer email, and don't want it set globally for all git repos I work on.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be configurable in git config. Can that be changed?

See user.email in git-config(1).  Most people set it globally, as in

  git config --global user.email "author@example.com"

but there's nothing stopping you from doing

  git config user.email "alias@example.com"

to set it on a per-repo level.  (Or just edit .git/config, of course.)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch