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

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Jan 7, 2011, 13:43 UTC
Message-ID: <201101071443.51574.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <ig7449$lbg$2@dough.gmane.org>

Stephen Kelly wrote:

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> Thomas Rast wrote:
> > 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.)
> 
> Doesn't this set both the author and the committer?

Stephen Kelly wrote earlier:

> If my email address that I use for committing is not the same as that 
> configured in the bugzilla, the automated bug closing does not work.

Oh, I see.  Yes, it does.

Probably if KDE has this use-case then that means we need to implement it as a feature on size alone, but I briefly looked into the code and it requires a bit more restructuring than I'm willing to do over coffee.

I think as a stop-gap measure you'll have to use an alias such as

  ci = commit --author="your usual <author>"

along with a local setting for user.email to force them to be different. (Note that this will re-set the author when saying 'git ci --amend' on other people's commits!)

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