everyone, please run these commands on every computer you have Git

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Erik Hovland<erik at hovland.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Ian Monroe<ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
>> git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
>> git config --global user.email you at yourdomain.example.com
>>
>> or else its all wonky in the commit messages (especially email).
>
> That is cool. But for histories sake are we concerned that now commit
> messages will not follow the KDE domain usernames? For example, all
> of my SVN commit messages would have the username hovland. Now they
> will have the git config. If you were looking for my commits you would
> have to make the connection. In my case hovland shows up in both.
> But if someone is smallberries at yoyodyne.com now in git but was
> bigbote on kde.org, it would be a lot harder to make the association.

Hopefully their names in both cases would be the same. :)

The fact that this isn't as tightly standardized is the cost of being
able to do stuff like push in a commit made by someone else, and the
person who actually did the work getting the credit.

Ian