Git in PLD - basic HOWTO

[Caleb Maclennan]

2012/7/10 Jakub Bogusz <qboosh at pld-linux.org>:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 03:40:58PM +0200, Kacper Kornet wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 04:26:00PM +0300, Caleb Maclennan wrote:
>> > 2) Is there a way to set git's user.email config variable without
>> > doing it globally? I use git for other things where my pld nick is not
>> > my email. However with each package being a separate repository,
>> > setting it in the repository config file instead of the global one
>> > means having to set it in a couple thousand places. Is there a way to
>> > match the git origin server or some other way of marking that
>> > everything under rpm/packages gets a certain set of configuration
>> > values?
>>
>> The solution that I know is to define a wrapper around git, that calls
>> call "git -c user.email=whatever", where whatever depends on the current
>> path. It's cumbersome, but maybe better then nothing.
>
> Is it possible to include user.* setting in per-package .git/config?
>
> If so, slug.py or builder could set it based on some PLD-specific config
> file or environment variable.

Yes it is possible. It would look like this as a separate section:

[user]
	email = caleb at pld-linux.org