On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:03 AM Andreas Schwab <
schwab@suse.de> wrote:
On Mai 24 2017, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> Does anyone know why git (or VC) used my login name and the host name of
> my machine instead of my email address in this commit, and how I can
> prevent this from happening again?
git config --global user.email ...
On a related note, the recent git release 2.13.0 has an interesting new feature.. you can specify your git credentials differently for different repos from a central place.
Here is a snippet from my ~/.gitconfig using that feature:
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# Below user credentials would be the default.. unless the includeIf overrides are in effect
[user]
name = Kaushal Modi
[includeIf "gitdir:~/stow/dot_files/"]
path = .gitconfig-work
[includeIf "gitdir:~/stow/dot_files_public/"]
path = .gitconfig-public
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This is my ~/.gitconfig-work:
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# -*- mode: conf-unix -*-
[user]
name = Kaushal Modi
email = <my work email>
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and my ~/.gitconfig-public:
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# -*- mode: conf-unix -*-
[user]
name = Kaushal Modi
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