Re: [PATCH] user.default: New config to prevent using the default values for user.*

["Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> "Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>  >> "Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:
>  >>
>  >> >>  > I would still need something to prevent doing a commit without a
>  >>  >>  > locally specified name/email.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  Yes, but that something could simply be "echo '[user] name'
>  >>  >>  >.git/config" in that hook, for example.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > But I want a different locally specified name in each repository,
>  >>  > because I use different emails for different projects
>  >>  > (private/work/...).
>  >>
>  >>  You changed your mind then?  You said you wanted to have something that
>  >>  prevents a commit from being made immediately after git-init before
>  >>  per-repo user.name is properly configured.  Doesn't that echo achieve that
>  >>  goal?
>  >
>  > But that was in the context of the initial patch where I said that I
>  > wanted different name/emails in each repository.
>  >
>  > To summarize, the problem is that I work in different projects
>  > (private/work/git/...) using the same account, but I want different
>  > identifies (name/email) in each. So I set user.name and user.email in
>  > each repository, but when I forget to set them git uses the default
>  > ones (userid@hostname.(none)).
>  >
>  > Hope I have explained it well.
>
>  Try:
>
>         $ mkdir -p /var/tmp/junk && cd /var/tmp/junk
>         $ git init
>
>         $ echo '[user] name' >>.git/config
>         $ >foo
>         $ git add
>
>  and tell me what you see.

Every single command fails because it no longer a valid git repository.

>
>  That's why I gave you the example of setting "[user] name"
>  (notice I did not say [user] name = 'Santi's name for this project')
>  to force you to configure it to whatever you want.

But then I have to configure in all the repositories, even the ones I
do not develop.

Santi