Hi William, On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 19:18, William Hubbs <williamh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We are in a situation where we would like to use author information that is > different from committer information when we commit to certain > repositories. [...] > [...] I would like to propose the addition of author.email and > author.name settings to the git-config system. > > Additionally you could add committer.name and committer.email, but the > only reason I bring the committer variations up is consistency since I > see you also have GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment > variables. This idea was floated a couple of months ago [1]. Junio seemed to find the request sensible and outlined a design. No patches materialized, as far as I know, but that could be because Eric suggested a tool called direnv. Maybe that would work for you. [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/0f66ad7a-2289-2cce-6533-a27e19945187@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Martin
