From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
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: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:49:01 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110111141857.GB21967@kytes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=t98=4p=R2DXeCJ0OVPey8EtTLxHQ=3KfqrQpE@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Stephen Kelly writes:
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It's like the difference between who are you, and what is your log-in
> identity on remote service X.
This feature should not be widely advertised- while it can confuse
many new users, I think it's useful to have in some scenarios like
this one.
-- Ram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-11 14:18 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
2011-01-11 13:41 ` Stephen Kelly
2011-01-11 14:19 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
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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