Re: How to force explicit user info

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

"Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com> 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.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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