From 6c9b500b66e232de19d7b91563fd741bea44ad70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:35:05 +1200
Subject: Remove user section from gitconfig, explain why

---
 git/gitconfig | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'git')

diff --git a/git/gitconfig b/git/gitconfig
index b969f865..1a6f90ad 100644
--- a/git/gitconfig
+++ b/git/gitconfig
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
-[user]
-    name = Tom Ryder
-    email = tom@sanctum.geek.nz
-    signingkey = 77BB8872
-
+#
+# The user section is intentionally left undefined here, because the name and
+# email I want to use for commits varies between contexts and machines (most
+# notably when I'm on a work machine). I therefore use an un-versioned script
+# in ~/.profile.d to do this that looks something like the following:
+#
+#     GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Tom Ryder'
+#     GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='tom@sanctum.geek.nz'
+#     GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
+#     GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
+#     export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL GIT_COMMITTER_NAME GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
+#
 [advice]
     statusHints = false
 
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