On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 2:31 PM Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Le jeudi 01 novembre 2018 à 12:22 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason a > écrit : > > > > Where would we get an E-Mail to lookup to pass to the helper? Are you > > just asking that the helper git the result of $(git config user.name > > && > > git config user.email)? If so why can't it just look this up itself? > > So, just in case it was not clear enough, allow things in .gitconfig > like > > [credential "https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/";] > username = doe4ever > name = John Doe > email = doe4ever@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [credential "https://gitlab.corp.com/";] > username = jdoe56874 > name = John Doe, Snr Engineer > email = john.doe@xxxxxxxx > > Instead of just > > [user] > name = John Doe > email = john.doe@xxxxxxxx > [credential "https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/";] > username = doe4ever > [credential "https://gitlab.corp.com/";] > username = jdoe56874 > > and drat, I've commited to XXX with the wrong name/email again How can Git know when you commit where you will want to push the commit afterwards? What if you want to push the same commit to 2 different places that need different credentials?
