On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Stephen Kelly <steveire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > Yes, aliases are normal configuration variables, and can be set per repo. > Is there a bug tracker used for git so that this issue doesn't get lost? > No, just this mailing list. -- 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