Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.25.0-rc0

From: Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 28, 2019, 12:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20191228125433.GC24268@danh.dev>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq36d5jtck.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On 2019-12-27 14:28:59-0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com> writes:
> > Some of my projects requires ASCII-only user.name,
> > instead of doing the right thing
> >
> > 	git config user.name <simplified-name>
> >
> > I decided to set it globally instead.
> > I rarely need to type in my native language,
> > hence I don't have the IME software start with Xorg.
> 
> Hmph, but back in v2.20 days, you did have IME?

Back in the days, I had my IME started on logging in, then to save some tiny time on starting up, I turned it off.

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> 
> In any case, if I were in such a situation to need my name spelled
> differently depending on the project I work on, I would probably use
> 
> 	$ git config --global user.name <simplified-name>
> 	$ cd <repository of git>
> 	$ git config user.name <name-with-accents>
> 
> or the other way around (depends on which projects your focus is on).

Yes, that's the the right way to do, but I didn't pick that way. I'm going through my ~/src and fixing it.

Thanks,

-- 
Danh