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author | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2013-07-18 14:35:05 +1200 |
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committer | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2013-07-18 14:35:05 +1200 |
commit | 6c9b500b66e232de19d7b91563fd741bea44ad70 (patch) | |
tree | 2f22a7060475703e7383d0e8cc453e12e514bd27 /git | |
parent | Remove unnecessary spaces in install script (diff) | |
download | dotfiles-6c9b500b66e232de19d7b91563fd741bea44ad70.tar.gz dotfiles-6c9b500b66e232de19d7b91563fd741bea44ad70.zip |
Remove user section from gitconfig, explain why
Diffstat (limited to 'git')
-rw-r--r-- | git/gitconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/git/gitconfig b/git/gitconfig index b969f865..1a6f90ad 100644 --- a/git/gitconfig +++ b/git/gitconfig @@ -1,8 +1,15 @@ -[user] - name = Tom Ryder - email = tom@sanctum.geek.nz - signingkey = 77BB8872 - +# +# The user section is intentionally left undefined here, because the name and +# email I want to use for commits varies between contexts and machines (most +# notably when I'm on a work machine). I therefore use an un-versioned script +# in ~/.profile.d to do this that looks something like the following: +# +# GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Tom Ryder' +# GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='tom@sanctum.geek.nz' +# GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME +# GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL +# export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL GIT_COMMITTER_NAME GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL +# [advice] statusHints = false |