Re: Wish: make commiter email address configurable per-repo

Stephen Kelly [off-list ref] writes:

Thomas Rast wrote:

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Stephen Kelly wrote:

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So for some git repos in KDE which I work on on work time, I'd like to
set a different committer address. I can't just set GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
or whatever in my bashrc, because in other repos I want to use a
different committer email, and don't want it set globally for all git
repos I work on.

This doesn't seem to be configurable in git config. Can that be changed?

See user.email in git-config(1).  Most people set it globally, as in

  git config --global user.email "author@example.com"

but there's nothing stopping you from doing

  git config user.email "alias@example.com"

to set it on a per-repo level.  (Or just edit .git/config, of course.)

Doesn't this set both the author and the committer?

And the reason why that is a bad thing is...?