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From: Nicholas LaRoche <nlaroche@vt.edu>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Can `git config` override entries in .gitconfig?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:05:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4950D41A.5050009@vt.edu> (raw)

Is there a direct way to change the user.email entry for a git 
repository for one user (applied to all previous commits)?

I tried `git config --unset user.email` followed by `git config 
user.email email2` but it just sets a second field called user.email 
that shows up in `git config -l` as a duplicate. My ~/.gitconfig file 
contains email1 for the user.email entry.

Also, when the repository is created can I specify a second set of 
contact information (i.e. using a project specific email) which isn't a 
part of ~/.gitconfig?

output of `git config -l`:
user.email=email1
..
..
user.email=email2

Regards,
Nick

             reply	other threads:[~2008-12-23 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-23 12:05 Nicholas LaRoche [this message]
2008-12-23 17:59 ` Can `git config` override entries in .gitconfig? Johan Herland

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