Re: How to force explicit user info

From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2008, 14:48 UTC
Message-ID: <8aa486160803050648v2fe2bfwb0711e81b162cba3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803050943070.19665@iabervon.org>

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Santi Béjar wrote:
>
>  > Hi  *,
>  >
>  >
>  >   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)?
>
>  It doesn't work now, but I think a global:
>
>  [user]
>         name
>
>  Could usefully be made to disable the default.
>

Yes, in fact I tried it. I think it makes sense as a way to disable the default name, instead of another config option.

Santi