From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:13:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFE] Please add name and email to git credentials
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD1rTJNOZzFMryY9BNKHUZKE8FUEgw+4jFfnZ7G8KGNrkw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6f3d8c49e1d44ab20d4169e5254364cba707f1af.camel@laposte.net>

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 2:31 PM Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> wrote:
>
> Le jeudi 01 novembre 2018 à 12:22 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason a
> écrit :
> >
> > 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?
>
> So, just in case it was not clear enough, allow things in .gitconfig
> like
>
> [credential "https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/"]
> username = doe4ever
> name = John Doe
> email = doe4ever@fedoraproject.org
> [credential "https://gitlab.corp.com/"]
> username = jdoe56874
> name = John Doe, Snr Engineer
> email = john.doe@corp.com
>
> Instead of just
>
> [user]
> name = John Doe
> email =  john.doe@corp.com
> [credential "https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/"]
> username = doe4ever
> [credential "https://gitlab.corp.com/"]
> username = jdoe56874
>
> and drat, I've commited to XXX with the wrong name/email again

How can Git know when you commit where you will want to push the
commit afterwards?

What if you want to push the same commit to 2 different places that
need different credentials?