Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I wouldn't mind having a GIT_EMAIL envvar with the semantics you mean, >> but can you say more about the use case? What's wrong with the usual >> EMAIL environment variable? > > EMAIL actually worked for this case for me, but there wasn't any > equivalent for author name, so the commits all look like > "sharedaccount <myuser@mydomain>". I do not want to go into the discussion on the sanity/insanity of using such a "shared account", but I am guessing that you already have a concrete and workable mechanism in mind to allow you to set these environment variables such as GIT_WEAKER_AUTHOR_NAME to individual real users who share that account, and I further guess that that is what you use to set EMAIL. Am I guessing right? If so, wouldn't it be a better option to use that mechanism to set separate $HOME (or XDG_CONFIG_HOME if you prefer) to these real users who share the account, so that separate $HOME/.gitconfig files can be used by them? -- 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