Hi, Stephen Kelly writes: > 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. This feature should not be widely advertised- while it can confuse many new users, I think it's useful to have in some scenarios like this one. -- Ram -- 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