Hi, git is unable to construct a reasonable default email address in my current environment. So, I use GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL to override things. This has worked well but, now, I need to vary the email address for some repositories. Unfortunately the environment variables override .git/config. It would be good if things were like: - try to construct one automagically - use ~/.git/config (if available) - use .git/config - use environment variables That way I could set my default email address in ~/.git/config and override it as required for those repositories that need it. Thanks, Anand -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, "If this goes on --" - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html