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Re: How to force explicit user info

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SBSanti Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 5, 2008, 14:46 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> "Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:
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>  >   How can I forbid the gecos info and always force git to ask for an
>  > explicit user.name and user.email?
>  >
>  >   I use a different email for personal projects and for work projects,
>  > using the same machine. So I set user.email locally in each
>  > repository. But when I forget setting this I get
>  > userid@hostname.(none) as the email. Is there a way to just die and
>  > ask for this info (maybe user.AlwaysExplicit or something like that)?
>
>  I don't think there is a way to get exactly what you want... unless
>  you would "scratch that itch"... :-)
Yes, I'll add this to my todo.
>
>  You can set default user.name and user.email in the ~/.gitconfig
>  global (user) git configuration, and in /etc/gitconfig for system-wide
>  git config, though. HTH.
But I don't want a default user.{name,email}.
Santi
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>  --
>  Jakub Narebski
>  Poland
>  ShadeHawk on #git
>
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