From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:22:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFE] Please add name and email to git credentials
Message-ID: <87zhutjb3t.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6d8ef01ad9eb08d90cb9848eeaeabe6784b7b3e3.camel@laposte.net>


On Thu, Nov 01 2018, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> A dev persona is not just a username, please add email (and probably
> also name) support to git credentials so the correct set for a repo url
> is automatically picked up by git

The "git-credential" helper needs to look at a URL like
git@github.com:git/git.git and decide that protocol=ssh, username=git,
host=github.com, path=git/git.git etc, because that's the credential we
need to lookup to push to.

Where would we get an E-Mail to lookup to pass to the helper? Are you
just asking that the helper git the result of $(git config user.name &&
git config user.email)? If so why can't it just look this up itself?