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Use GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_AUTHOR_NAME environment variables during commit #475
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Hi @astanoszek thanks for your interest in gitui. I found those in the documentation: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Environment-Variables
did not even know they existed 🙈 can you give me a Little more insight when/why these are preferred over the git config?
Git config is great if you work with local repository. In my case I sometimes work in repository on the remote machine, which is shared by few people. In such a case I set the environment variable in my .ssh key and commit using my name.
I know that it is questionable practice and everybody should use local branches but you know - there are specific cases.
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on Oct 11, 2021
One of the ways to provide author name of the commiter in git is to use the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL environment variables.
It would be great if gitui used them also.