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From: Marco Beck <mbeck@eaddrinuse.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpg-interface: allow selecting key id with env variable
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 23:14:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXXMroOBvDERXIMP@octopus.int.carobme.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsfwq40w7.fsf@gitster.g>

On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 01:35:04PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>Can you explain why we want to add another way to specify the key?

Motivation for that patch was that I usually use the same .gitconfig
(all dotfiles actually) with multiple identities (e.g. company and private
email address). It's really convenient to switch to a different identity
for the rest of the session by just setting e.g. $GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and not
needing to remember adding --author to every invocation of git-commit(1)
etc. Thought it would be nice to have that convenience for selecting a
signing key as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-24 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-24 19:36 [PATCH] gpg-interface: allow selecting key id with env variable Marco Beck
2021-10-24 20:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-24 21:14   ` Marco Beck [this message]
2021-10-25  7:31     ` Fabian Stelzer
2021-10-25  8:24       ` Marco Beck
2021-10-25  8:46         ` Fabian Stelzer
2021-10-25 14:38           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-07 16:27           ` Marco Beck
2021-10-25 10:38     ` Junio C Hamano

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