"Santi Béjar" <sbejar@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > How can I forbid the gecos info and always force git to ask for an > explicit user.name and user.email? > > I use a different email for personal projects and for work projects, > using the same machine. So I set user.email locally in each > repository. But when I forget setting this I get > userid@hostname.(none) as the email. Is there a way to just die and > ask for this info (maybe user.AlwaysExplicit or something like that)? I don't think there is a way to get exactly what you want... unless you would "scratch that itch"... :-) You can set default user.name and user.email in the ~/.gitconfig global (user) git configuration, and in /etc/gitconfig for system-wide git config, though. HTH. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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