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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
	Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce new configuation option to override committer information
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:24:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110109172431.GA7718@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294568989-5848-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> The 'user.name' and 'user.email' configuration
> options set both author and committer information. To solve this,
> introduce 'user.committername' and 'user.committeremail' configuration
> options to override committer name and email respectively.

Predictably, I don't like this idea at all.  How would we explain this
to a new user that is reading over gitconfig(5) for the first time?
It makes the semantics of the committer and author name (that are mostly
meant for giving credit and a contact address) much more murky.

Stephen Kelly:

> In KDE the committer email address is used to be able to use keywords in 
> commit messages to automatically close bugs.

Is it impossible to fix this on the KDE side?  I would think a
many-to-one mapping from committer identities to bugzilla account
names could be a useful thing to have in any case.

Hopeful,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-09 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-07 13:16 Wish: make commiter email address configurable per-repo Stephen Kelly
2011-01-07 13:20 ` Thomas Rast
2011-01-07 13:23   ` Stephen Kelly
2011-01-07 13:43     ` Thomas Rast
2011-01-07 18:01       ` Stephen Kelly
2011-01-07 18:19         ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-01-20 18:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-08  8:03 ` [PATCH] Introduce new configuation option to override committer information Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-01-08 19:24   ` Stephen Kelly
2011-01-09 10:29     ` [PATCH v2] " Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-01-09 17:24       ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-01-11 13:41         ` Stephen Kelly
2011-01-11 14:19           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-01-11 14:42         ` Thomas Rast
2011-01-20 19:00           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-20 11:16       ` Stephen Kelly
2011-01-20 12:52         ` Thomas Rast
2011-01-20 15:24           ` Stephen Kelly
2011-01-20 19:19             ` Jonathan Nieder

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