Re: How to force explicit user info

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Mar 5, 2008, 14:45 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803050943070.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <8aa486160803050539p4c443302nc322241d59fe9374@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Santi Béjar wrote:

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> 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.

	-Daniel
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