Thomas Rast wrote: > Stephen Kelly wrote: >> Thomas Rast wrote: >> > See user.email in git-config(1). Most people set it globally, as in >> > >> > git config --global user.email "author@xxxxxxxxxxx" >> > >> > but there's nothing stopping you from doing >> > >> > git config user.email "alias@xxxxxxxxxxx" >> > >> > 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? > > Oh, I see. Yes, it does. > > Stephen Kelly wrote earlier: >> If my email address that I use for committing is not the same as that >> configured in the bugzilla, the automated bug closing does not work. > > > Probably if KDE has this use-case then that means we need to implement > it as a feature on size alone, but I briefly looked into the code and > it requires a bit more restructuring than I'm willing to do over > coffee. > > I think as a stop-gap measure you'll have to use an alias such as > > ci = commit --author="your usual <author>" > > along with a local setting for user.email to force them to be > different. (Note that this will re-set the author when saying 'git > ci --amend' on other people's commits!) > Thanks for looking into it! I'll consider the alias you suggest. Git command aliases can be configured per repo, right? Is there a bug tracker used for git so that this issue doesn't get lost? All the best, Steve. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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