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.