Re: Wish: make commiter email address configurable per-repo
Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> writes:
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> Thomas Rast wrote:
>
>> Stephen Kelly wrote:
>>> 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.)
>
> Doesn't this set both the author and the committer?
And the reason why that is a bad thing is...?