Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config"

From: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 6, 2018, 18:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN0heSp2g0A82YYvMw-RaERESXFtj3TgPKA3RysC07Lf=tHBcg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181206181739.GB30045@whubbs1.gaikai.biz>

Hi William,

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 19:18, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> We are in a situation where we would like to use author information that is
> different from committer information when we commit to certain
> repositories.

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> [...] I would like to propose the addition of author.email and
> author.name settings to the git-config system.
>
> Additionally you could add committer.name and committer.email, but the
> only reason I bring the committer variations up is consistency since I
> see you also have GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment
> variables.

This idea was floated a couple of months ago [1]. Junio seemed to find the request sensible and outlined a design. No patches materialized, as far as I know, but that could be because Eric suggested a tool called direnv. Maybe that would work for you.

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/0f66ad7a-2289-2cce-6533-a27e19945187@rasmusvillemoes.dk/

Martin