From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:19:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce new configuation option to override committer information
Message-ID: <20110111141857.GB21967@kytes>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=t98=4p=R2DXeCJ0OVPey8EtTLxHQ=3KfqrQpE@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Stephen Kelly writes:
> 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