On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > >> The 'user.name' and 'user.email' configuration >> options set both author and committer information. To solve this, >> introduce 'user.committername' and 'user.committeremail' configuration >> options to override committer name and email respectively. > > Predictably, I don't like this idea at all. How would we explain this > to a new user that is reading over gitconfig(5) for the first time? > It makes the semantics of the committer and author name (that are mostly > meant for giving credit and a contact address) much more murky. It's like the difference between who are you, and what is your log-in identity on remote service X. > > Stephen Kelly: > >> In KDE the committer email address is used to be able to use keywords in >> commit messages to automatically close bugs. > > Is it impossible to fix this on the KDE side? I would think a > many-to-one mapping from committer identities to bugzilla account > names could be a useful thing to have in any case. I asked that before coming here, and apparently that is not possible. Thanks, Steve. > > Hopeful, > Jonathan > -- 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