Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config"

2018-12-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
William Hubbs wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:20:07PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> There *is* a way to get what you want that is super easy and will >> definitely work: if you sit down and do it ;-) >> >> Please let us know if you need any additional information before you can >>

Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config"

2018-12-07 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Johannes, On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:20:07PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi William, > >[...] > > There *is* a way to get what you want that is super easy and will > definitely work: if you sit down and do it ;-) > > Please let us know if you need any additional information before

Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config"

2018-12-06 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi William, On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, William Hubbs wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 07:38:08PM +0100, Martin Ågren wrote: > > Hi William, > > > > [...] > > > > This idea was floated a couple of months ago [1]. Junio seemed to find > > the request sensible and outlined a design. No patches

Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config"

2018-12-06 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 07:38:08PM +0100, Martin Ågren wrote: > Hi William, > > [...] > > This idea was floated a couple of months ago [1]. Junio seemed to find > the request sensible and outlined a design. No patches materialized, as > far as I know, but that could be because Eric suggested a

Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config"

2018-12-06 Thread Martin Ågren
Hi William, On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 19:18, William Hubbs wrote: > We are in a situation where we would like to use author information that is > different from committer information when we commit to certain > repositories. [...] > [...] I would like to propose the addition of author.email and >

enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config"

2018-12-06 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, We are in a situation where we would like to use author information that is different from committer information when we commit to certain repositories. Currently, it looks like there are two ways to do this, and I'm not sure how to make either of them work well. There are the