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Re: [PATCH] gpg-interface: allow selecting key id with env variable

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Oct 24, 2021, 21:14 UTC
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On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 01:35:04PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Can you explain why we want to add another way to specify the key?

Motivation for that patch was that I usually use the same .gitconfig (all dotfiles actually) with multiple identities (e.g. company and private email address). It's really convenient to switch to a different identity for the rest of the session by just setting e.g. $GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and not needing to remember adding --author to every invocation of git-commit(1) etc. Thought it would be nice to have that convenience for selecting a signing key as well.

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  1. gpg-interface: allow selecting key id with env variableMarco Beck, Oct 24, 2021
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 24, 2021
  3. Marco BeckOct 24, 2021
  4. Fabian StelzerOct 25, 2021
  5. Marco BeckOct 25, 2021
  6. Fabian StelzerOct 25, 2021
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 25, 2021
  8. Marco BeckNov 7, 2021
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2021

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