# How to force explicit user info 5 messages from 2008-03-05 to 2008-03-05. Participants: Santi Béjar, Jakub Narebski, Daniel Barkalow. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12516 ## Santi Béjar, 2008-03-05 13:39 Subject: How to force explicit user info Message-ID: <8aa486160803050539p4c443302nc322241d59fe9374@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/8aa486160803050539p4c443302nc322241d59fe9374%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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)? Thanks Santi ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-03-05 14:38 Subject: Re: How to force explicit user info Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3r6epgrqt.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <8aa486160803050539p4c443302nc322241d59fe9374@mail.gmail.com> ``` "Santi Béjar" writes: > 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)? I don't think there is a way to get exactly what you want... unless you would "scratch that itch"... :-) You can set default user.name and user.email in the ~/.gitconfig global (user) git configuration, and in /etc/gitconfig for system-wide git config, though. HTH. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Daniel Barkalow, 2008-03-05 14:45 Subject: Re: How to force explicit user info Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LNX.1.00.0803050943070.19665%40iabervon.org In-Reply-To: <8aa486160803050539p4c443302nc322241d59fe9374@mail.gmail.com> ``` On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Santi Béjar wrote: > 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 *This .sig left intentionally blank* ``` ## Santi Béjar, 2008-03-05 14:46 Subject: Re: How to force explicit user info Message-ID: <8aa486160803050646m1dcceaf7y702dca453068f073@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/8aa486160803050646m1dcceaf7y702dca453068f073%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > "Santi Béjar" writes: > > > 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)? > > I don't think there is a way to get exactly what you want... unless > you would "scratch that itch"... :-) Yes, I'll add this to my todo. > > You can set default user.name and user.email in the ~/.gitconfig > global (user) git configuration, and in /etc/gitconfig for system-wide > git config, though. HTH. But I don't want a default user.{name,email}. Santi > > -- > Jakub Narebski > Poland > ShadeHawk on #git > ``` ## Santi Béjar, 2008-03-05 14:48 Subject: Re: How to force explicit user info Message-ID: <8aa486160803050648v2fe2bfwb0711e81b162cba3@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/8aa486160803050648v2fe2bfwb0711e81b162cba3%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Santi Béjar wrote: > > > 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. > Yes, in fact I tried it. I think it makes sense as a way to disable the default name, instead of another config option. Santi ```