# enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config" 8 messages from 2018-12-06 to 2018-12-13. Participants: William Hubbs, Martin Ågren, Johannes Schindelin, Jonathan Nieder. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/49962 ## William Hubbs, 2018-12-06 18:17 Subject: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config" Message-ID: <20181206181739.GB30045@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20181206181739.GB30045%40whubbs1.gaikai.biz ``` Hi all, We are in a situation where we would like to use author information that is different from committer information when we commit to certain repositories. Currently, it looks like there are two ways to do this, and I'm not sure how to make either of them work well. There are the GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_AUTHOR_NAME environment variables, but these would have to be set globally. Also, there is the --author command line switch for the "git commit" command, but this is easy to forget to use. Is there something I'm missing? If not, I would like to propose the addition of author.email and author.name settings to the git-config system. Additionally you could add committer.name and committer.email, but the only reason I bring the committer variations up is consistency since I see you also have GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment variables. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I don't think either of us is on the mailing list, so please keep us in CC's when you reply. Thanks, William ``` ## Martin Ågren, 2018-12-06 18:38 Subject: Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config" Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAN0heSp2g0A82YYvMw-RaERESXFtj3TgPKA3RysC07Lf%3DtHBcg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20181206181739.GB30045@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> ``` Hi William, On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 19:18, William Hubbs wrote: > We are in a situation where we would like to use author information that is > different from committer information when we commit to certain > repositories. [...] > [...] I would like to propose the addition of author.email and > author.name settings to the git-config system. > > Additionally you could add committer.name and committer.email, but the > only reason I bring the committer variations up is consistency since I > see you also have GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment > variables. This idea was floated a couple of months ago [1]. Junio seemed to find the request sensible and outlined a design. No patches materialized, as far as I know, but that could be because Eric suggested a tool called direnv. Maybe that would work for you. [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/0f66ad7a-2289-2cce-6533-a27e19945187@rasmusvillemoes.dk/ Martin ``` ## William Hubbs, 2018-12-06 19:17 Subject: Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config" Message-ID: <20181206191737.GA31091@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20181206191737.GA31091%40whubbs1.gaikai.biz In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 07:38:08PM +0100, Martin Ågren wrote: > Hi William, > > [...] > > This idea was floated a couple of months ago [1]. Junio seemed to find > the request sensible and outlined a design. No patches materialized, as > far as I know, but that could be because Eric suggested a tool called > direnv. Maybe that would work for you. Yes, this design would solve the issue. I'll take a look at direnv, but it would be nice to have native git support for this. :-) Thanks, William > [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/0f66ad7a-2289-2cce-6533-a27e19945187@rasmusvillemoes.dk/ > > Martin ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2018-12-06 22:20 Subject: Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config" Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1812062318570.41%40tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet In-Reply-To: <20181206191737.GA31091@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> ``` Hi William, On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, William Hubbs wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 07:38:08PM +0100, Martin Ågren wrote: > > Hi William, > > > > [...] > > > > This idea was floated a couple of months ago [1]. Junio seemed to find > > the request sensible and outlined a design. No patches materialized, as > > far as I know, but that could be because Eric suggested a tool called > > direnv. Maybe that would work for you. > > Yes, this design would solve the issue. There *is* a way to get what you want that is super easy and will definitely work: if you sit down and do it ;-) Please let us know if you need any additional information before you can start. Ciao, Johannes ``` ## William Hubbs, 2018-12-07 22:21 Subject: Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config" Message-ID: <20181207222147.GA22590@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20181207222147.GA22590%40whubbs1.gaikai.biz In-Reply-To: ``` Hi Johannes, On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:20:07PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi William, > >[...] > > There *is* a way to get what you want that is super easy and will > definitely work: if you sit down and do it ;-) > > Please let us know if you need any additional information before you can > start. Which branch should I work off of in the repo? William ``` ## Jonathan Nieder, 2018-12-07 22:44 Subject: Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config" Message-ID: <20181207224428.GE73340@google.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20181207224428.GE73340%40google.com In-Reply-To: <20181207222147.GA22590@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> ``` William Hubbs wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:20:07PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> There *is* a way to get what you want that is super easy and will >> definitely work: if you sit down and do it ;-) >> >> Please let us know if you need any additional information before you can >> start. > > Which branch should I work off of in the repo? "master". Also, please make sure the documentation (e.g. in Documentation/config/user.txt) describes when a user would want to set this option. See also: - Documentation/SubmittingPatches - the DISCUSSION section of "git help format-patch" - [1] - https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#hacking-git Thanks, Jonathan [1] https://github.com/gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget#a-bot-to-serve-as-glue-between-github-pull-requests-and-the-git-mailing-list ``` ## William Hubbs, 2018-12-13 19:29 Subject: Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config" Message-ID: <20181213192930.GA21006@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20181213192930.GA21006%40whubbs1.gaikai.biz In-Reply-To: <20181207224428.GE73340@google.com> ``` Hi Jonathan, On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 02:44:28PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > William Hubbs wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:20:07PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > >> There *is* a way to get what you want that is super easy and will > >> definitely work: if you sit down and do it ;-) > >> > >> Please let us know if you need any additional information before you can > >> start. > > > > Which branch should I work off of in the repo? > > "master". > > Also, please make sure the documentation (e.g. in > Documentation/config/user.txt) describes when a user would want to set > this option. Is the git team on an irc channel somewhere, or should I start sending patches that I know are incomplete to the list? I would like to work with someone on this since I'm not that familiar with the git sources. :-) Thanks, William ``` ## Jonathan Nieder, 2018-12-13 19:37 Subject: Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config" Message-ID: <20181213193754.GA7306@google.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20181213193754.GA7306%40google.com In-Reply-To: <20181213192930.GA21006@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> ``` William Hubbs wrote: > Is the git team on an irc channel somewhere, Some like to use #git-devel on freenode. > or should I start sending > patches that I know are incomplete to the list? Yeah, that's fine. Include [WIP/PATCH] in the subject line to set appropriate expectations. :) Thanks, Jonathan ```