To be clear, Randall means to set the user.email and user.name setting in the ./git/config file in your CouchDB clone.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 27, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Randall Leeds wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 16:22, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Quick question: >>> >>> Do you all have any strategies or techniques for committing under >>> various identities? I would like CouchDB commits to be [email protected], >>> but work projects, under different email addresses. >>> >>> This one is hard to google. It's tons of walkthroughs for identifying >>> to a Git server (SSH key management, etc.). I'm just talking about the >>> committer ID. >>> >>> All I've thought to do is make fresh clones and run git config >>> user.email [email protected]. Then I guess I'll use that for working on >>> couch, any commits that might one day go upstream. And I'll pull them >>> in to other branches and forks? >> >> You needn't make a fresh clone to set your email address. I keep my >> gmail in --global and my CouchDB repo as @apache.org. > > Ditto.
