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Subject: Re: Wish: make commiter email address configurable per-repo
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:44:09 -0800
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Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> writes:

> Thomas Rast wrote:
>
>> Stephen Kelly wrote:
>>> So for some git repos in KDE which I work on on work time, I'd like to
>>> set a different committer address. I can't just set GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
>>> or whatever in my bashrc, because in other repos I want to use a
>>> different committer email, and don't want it set globally for all git
>>> repos I work on.
>>> 
>>> This doesn't seem to be configurable in git config. Can that be changed?
>> 
>> See user.email in git-config(1).  Most people set it globally, as in
>> 
>>   git config --global user.email "author@example.com"
>> 
>> but there's nothing stopping you from doing
>> 
>>   git config user.email "alias@example.com"
>> 
>> to set it on a per-repo level.  (Or just edit .git/config, of course.)
>
> Doesn't this set both the author and the committer?

And the reason why that is a bad thing is...?