Identifying yourself when committing in Git

[fu]

Quick note:

We'd like you to use your Dreamwidth username / email when committing. This makes it a lot easier for us to track who did what in the future. It also helps us match the author of the commit with who you are, and lets us confirm that we've received your CLA.

Edit your config (~/.gitconfig) and add this section:

[user]
name = USERNAME
email = USERNAME@dreamwidth.org


Then add your USERNAME@dreamwidth.org email to your Github account, so that the commits on Github will link to your identity on Github.

Please don't forget to tweak this setting on both your local computer and your Dreamhack if you do commits on both. Thank you!

If you're working on other projects, you can also just edit your author identity in just the Dreamwidth repositories (Thanks shadowspar)

Comments

[foxfirefey]

Problem here:

How is somebody who doesn't have a paid DW account supposed to verify USERNAME@dreamwidth.org as an email?

[fu]

It doesn't need to be verified in order to work, as far as I know! (I just checked, and while I haven't verified my @dreamwidth.org email, it's still linking me up properly on commits I've made with that email)

[kimira]

So it doesn't matter if that email address doesn't actually forward to anywhere, as for free accounts? Just double-checking.

[denise]

This does remind me to start going through the contributors list and making sure people have paid time! (If only because it makes it easier to test things, heh.)

[kimira]

...oh, I do actually already have a paid account, it's just a different account? I wanted to switch to using this one for any future attempts at doing things because I put my wallet name up on bugzilla and I don't want it linked to my main (paid) dw account. I just wanted to make sure that if I put in a forwarding email for a free account that didn't actually work/forward anywhere, as suggested above, that things would still work out okay. :x

[denise]

It shouldn't cause any problems, but don't quote me on it.

[momijizukamori]

FWIW, you don't have to use your wallet name on Bugzilla, although a lot of people do. D and Mark and Dre know mine, but I'm just listed as 'Momiji' there :)

[kimira]

Thanks. :) Yeah, I knew it wasn't required, but I wanted to change it so that it was on there.

[fu]

Yup, you don't need to have the forwarding email work.

[momijizukamori]

Hmm. Is there a way to do this and still recieve notifs on another account? I put my Bugzilla account (momijizukamori+bugzilla@gmail.com) on my github one, so all my dev e-mail lands in the same folder ;)

[fu]

The email notifications will still be sent to the one that's default on your Github account (which could be different from the one you used to identify yourself when committing), so that should be fine!

[momijizukamori]

Excellent :D

[randomling]

Hm, looks like I'll be making a DW account under my wallet name then. (I recently put my Github under my wallet name to make it more sensible for maybe trying to apply for jobs, and I try really hard to keep my wallet name and the randomling identity separate...)

[fu]

Identity is hard :/

[shadowspar]

FWIW, if you're using git for other projects and need to have a different identity there, it's also possible to configure name and email on a per-checkout basis.

In each of your dw-free and dw-nonfree checkouts, give these commands:

git config user.name "your name"
git config user.email "your@email"

or edit the .git/config file in each checkout and add the section

[user]
        name = your name
        email = your@email

And then git will use those values for that checkout, overriding the global ones in $HOME/.gitconfig.

[fu]

Thank you! I'm linking this from the top level entry. I didn't want to make things any more complicated than I wrote above, but this is nicely written :)

[kunzite]

I currently have a free account here on Dreamwidth. I have altered my ~/.gitconfig to show "kunzite" and "kunzite@dreamwidth.org."

I still need to learn and go over the Newbie Guide to Github on Windows and also figure out what kind of schedule I'm going to have after I get further employed.

Hmm, maybe I should blog about that...

[momijizukamori]

one of us, one of us, one of us.....

>_>