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Re: feature request: allow commit.email config setting

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Aug 30, 2018, 18:13 UTC
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:26 AM Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:
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> I can set GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL in the environment, but that is
> rather inconvenient, since that means I have to remember to do that in
> the shell I'm using for that particular project, and I can't use that
> shell for other projects. So it would be really nice if I could set
> commit.email = $private-email in the local .git/config for that
> particular project.

Aside from modifying Git itself to support such a use-case, another (perhaps more pragmatic) approach would be to use a tool, such as direnv[1], which automatically sets environment variables for you depending upon your current working directory, or just use some ad-hoc shell programming to achieve the same (for instance, [2]).

[1]: https://direnv.net [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14462591/set-environmental-variables-in-a-particular-directory

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