Re: master 08f00c0: Fix and improve UI of scroll bar menu (bug#27047)

Re: master 08f00c0: Fix and improve UI of scroll bar menu (bug#27047)

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 24 May 2017 07:33:37 -0400 (EDT) stephen.berman@gmx.net (Stephen Berman) wrote:

> branch: master
> commit 08f00c01d6f19a3b4465cc856c6ae55a1acdc350
> Author: Stephen Berman <steve@rosalinde.fritz.box>
> Commit: Stephen Berman <steve@rosalinde.fritz.box>
>
>     Fix and improve UI of scroll bar menu (bug#27047)

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?

(When I first tried to send this, Gnus complained:

The Message-ID looks strange: "<87r2zeqxsp.fsf@rosalinde>".  Really post? (y or n)

I cancelled, but I've seen this before, and the mail goes out anyway;
hope it does now, too.)

Steve Berman

Re: master 08f00c0: Fix and improve UI of scroll bar menu (bug#27047)

[Andreas Schwab]

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 ...

Andreas.

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Re: master 08f00c0: Fix and improve UI of scroll bar menu (bug#27047)

[Kaushal Modi]

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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:

=====
# Below user credentials would be the default.. unless the includeIf
overrides are in effect
[user]
name = Kaushal Modi
email = kaushal.modi@gmail.com
# https://github.com/blog/2360-git-2-13-has-been-released
[includeIf "gitdir:~/stow/dot_files/"]
        path = .gitconfig-work
[includeIf "gitdir:~/stow/dot_files_public/"]
        path = .gitconfig-public
=====

This is my ~/.gitconfig-work:
=====
# -*- mode: conf-unix -*-
[user]
name = Kaushal Modi
email = <my work email>
=====

and my ~/.gitconfig-public:
=====
# -*- mode: conf-unix -*-
[user]
name = Kaushal Modi
email = kaushal.modi@gmail.com
=====


-- 

Kaushal Modi

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Re: master 08f00c0: Fix and improve UI of scroll bar menu (bug#27047)

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 24 May 2017 14:01:37 +0200 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 ...

Ah, thanks.  (I actually have a global .gitconfig, which I keep on a
data partition, since I use more than one system on this machine, and I
see that I forgot to symlink it to my home directory in the system I
posted from.)

Steve Berman