From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: How to force explicit user info Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:38:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <8aa486160803050539p4c443302nc322241d59fe9374@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Git Mailing List" To: =?iso-8859-15?q?Santi_B=E9jar?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 05 15:40:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWumF-0000ax-4D for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:39:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752001AbYCEOiu convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:38:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751830AbYCEOiu (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:38:50 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:18996 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751353AbYCEOit convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:38:49 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so3303317ugc.16 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:38:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received:x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:date; bh=VAm5pgzcQL4Q7mbUjitYv3cxzXLvHPgUaj5cPSNyfyg=; b=G0HIbzQHII/wCZ5cQa1/VxccO9v0s6Ze6ObJ7cEI/b93/BsbCH//JRcpU4w5hxcxRpGE1y7ZLaHoS4KEHtlJ3Z9B8/xR9b2VoHgJ33dm98/gGRof3SuZFV/ali+rc2Cr4DKa3LT1QZwbzewPfIVpvsxpVfA4/od5aFEdtA+Dcn4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:date; b=UferXGE4M6NCbR2MobLzEplYdfcqPL1sJy1g6KOqMowqpFx6a9JX+vVmMe/1Jb13FwTwbdPzjySJICbU1fx7QGazb6gA2Vb+9ledeIvFiv1+eI21VXkTRlsIXXcRPal1dP7FXAno09PATTdLE9iNC3hQOZ55asXSousMp64PySs= Received: by 10.66.251.3 with SMTP id y3mr6439324ugh.88.1204727925844; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:38:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ( [83.8.248.32]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n34sm3831262ugc.64.2008.03.05.06.38.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:38:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m25Ed7Zh023295; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:39:07 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id m25Ed7nK023292; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:39:07 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <8aa486160803050539p4c443302nc322241d59fe9374@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Santi B=E9jar" writes: > How can I forbid the gecos info and always force git to ask for an > explicit user.name and user.email? >=20 > 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. --=20 Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git