On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 01:35:04PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Can you explain why we want to add another way to specify the key?
Motivation for that patch was that I usually use the same .gitconfig (all dotfiles actually) with multiple identities (e.g. company and private email address). It's really convenient to switch to a different identity for the rest of the session by just setting e.g. $GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and not needing to remember adding --author to every invocation of git-commit(1) etc. Thought it would be nice to have that convenience for selecting a signing key as well.
