On 24.10.21 23:14, Marco Beck wrote: > 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. If you only need to rarely change the key to sign with, the commands usually have a direct parameter to do so: git tag -s -u <keyid> git commit -S<keyid> Otherwise https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_conditional_includes might be useful if you can store you private & work git in separate directories or only have a few selected repos per identity. Put all your defaults in your .gitconfig and use sth like: [includeIf "gitdir:~/projects/work/"] path = ".gitconfig.work" to override them. Kind regards, Fabian
