From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce new configuation option to override committer information Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:49:01 +0530 Message-ID: <20110111141857.GB21967@kytes> References: <1294568989-5848-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com> <20110109172431.GA7718@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Git List , Thomas Rast , Erik Faye-Lund To: Stephen Kelly X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 11 15:18:43 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pcf3V-0004Lu-QN for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:18:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932211Ab1AKOS2 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:18:28 -0500 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:39336 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932208Ab1AKOS1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:18:27 -0500 Received: by gwj20 with SMTP id 20so8939530gwj.19 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:18:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=E8WujXP2dfD4bUqItodbPRFfh5ckXZLxC7NLNLCvTbg=; b=aIDXiK3MKtKX65RAFxoUQlXZCok79cIGgfs/7ZGiEX3B3Iu/5qzkGHXU/0LziKx2f6 M0pU87/mRc1tZQUppG8paKB4Z+/JMSsyuHW2NxwVNpe72BpmGz9HrryLoA1QC8SlvTrQ lT1yCfdDI0ChUhArz/vGvt8jIsiDTIrkJChvo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=ZQvWarMwVAEFOsmNiZjAtL26w13+DS95fAGZF+s7Si14hlsrFB29awa/yVH+h04FOW Lp4O6qERQr5ndYg1w6pD5eHISj0suCLXK4Eh35BM4YkDq5ap8jUs09Fn04sdGKOasXL9 OhlmspWcyfYgjZ2fJUq6nDS+zuLwN1nko2eiY= Received: by 10.151.109.8 with SMTP id l8mr210344ybm.46.1294755506237; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:18:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from kytes ([203.110.240.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v4sm2949157ybe.17.2011.01.11.06.18.21 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:18:24 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Stephen Kelly writes: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jonathan Nieder = 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' configura= tion > >> options to override committer name and email respectively. > > > > Predictably, I don't like this idea at all. =A0How 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 m= ostly > > meant for giving credit and a contact address) much more murky. >=20 > 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