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Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce new configuation option to override committer information

From
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 11, 2011, 14:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20110111141857.GB21967@kytes>
In-Reply-To
<AANLkTi=t98=4p=R2DXeCJ0OVPey8EtTLxHQ=3KfqrQpE@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Stephen Kelly writes:
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> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> >
> >> The 'user.name' and 'user.email' configuration
> >> options set both author and committer information. To solve this,
> >> introduce 'user.committername' and 'user.committeremail' configuration
> >> options to override committer name and email respectively.
> >
> > Predictably, I don't like this idea at all.  How would we explain this
> > to a new user that is reading over gitconfig(5) for the first time?
> > It makes the semantics of the committer and author name (that are mostly
> > meant for giving credit and a contact address) much more murky.
> 
> It's like the difference between who are you, and what is your log-in
> identity on remote service X.

This feature should not be widely advertised- while it can confuse many new users, I think it's useful to have in some scenarios like this one.

-- Ram
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Message 13 of 19 in “Wish: make commiter email address configurable per-repo”
  1. Stephen KellyJan 7, 2011
  2. Thomas RastJan 7, 2011
  3. Stephen KellyJan 7, 2011
  4. Thomas RastJan 7, 2011
  5. Stephen KellyJan 7, 2011
  6. Erik Faye-LundJan 7, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2011
  8. Introduce new configuation option to override committer informationRamkumar Ramachandra, Jan 8, 2011
  9. Stephen KellyJan 8, 2011
  10. Introduce new configuation option to override committer informationRamkumar Ramachandra, Jan 9, 2011
  11. Jonathan NiederJan 9, 2011
  12. Stephen KellyJan 11, 2011
  13. Ramkumar RamachandraJan 11, 2011
  14. Thomas RastJan 11, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2011
  16. Stephen KellyJan 20, 2011
  17. Thomas RastJan 20, 2011
  18. Stephen KellyJan 20, 2011
  19. Jonathan NiederJan 20, 2011

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