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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce new configuation option to override
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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:24:31 -0600
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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