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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to force explicit user info
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:38:43 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r6epgrqt.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8aa486160803050539p4c443302nc322241d59fe9374@mail.gmail.com>

"Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:

>   How can I forbid the gecos info and always force git to ask for an
> explicit user.name and user.email?
> 
>   I use a different email for personal projects and for work projects,
> using the same machine. So I set user.email locally in each
> repository. But when I forget setting this I get
> userid@hostname.(none) as the email. Is there a way to just die and
> ask for this info (maybe user.AlwaysExplicit or something like that)?

I don't think there is a way to get exactly what you want... unless
you would "scratch that itch"... :-)

You can set default user.name and user.email in the ~/.gitconfig
global (user) git configuration, and in /etc/gitconfig for system-wide
git config, though. HTH.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-05 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05 13:39 How to force explicit user info Santi Béjar
2008-03-05 14:38 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-03-05 14:46   ` Santi Béjar
2008-03-05 14:45 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-03-05 14:48   ` Santi Béjar

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