From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:02:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Author name and e-mail address in .stgitrc
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0611111502q2f68be67l1a2441d84923a732@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061111141530.GF11224@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On 11/11/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> Is there any particular reason to have the author and committer names
> in ~/.stgitrc? Simply taking them from the same place git does would
> probably be a usability enhancement (unless they're specified on the
> command line, of course).

At the time I added these to .stgitrc, the only place git was taking
them from was the environment variables and I wanted to put them in a
single place. I also didn't like the idea of having the committer
e-mail address be some username@local-machine as I don't think the
name of the machine where I create patches is relevant. I also define
the committer/author per repository in the .git/stgitrc file (i.e. I
use @arm.com for Linux patches and @gmail.com for StGIT).

I use StGIT almost exclusively, even in "maintainer" mode and I would
like not to spread the configuration options over many files. It is on
my todo list to use the same configuration file as git (with a [stgit]
section) since it has a format that should be understood by the Python
config module.

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