Re: [PATCH] user.default: New config to prevent using the default values for user.*

[Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>]

Santi Béjar wrote:
> Useful when you want a different email/name for each repository
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/config.txt |    5 +++++
>  cache.h                  |    1 +
>  config.c                 |    5 +++++
>  environment.c            |    1 +
>  ident.c                  |    6 +++---
>  5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index 4027726..d7e5b6d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -914,6 +914,11 @@ url.<base>.insteadOf::
>  	never-before-seen repository on the site.  When more than one
>  	insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used.
>  
> +user.default::
> +	If false the defaults values for user.email and user.name are not

s/defaults/default

> +	used. Useful when you want a different email/name for each
> +	repository, normally set in the global config file.
> +

You already _can_ have a different email/name for each
repository, right?  Isn't the issue that you want to _force_
each repository to explicitly have these values set?

jdl