Tuesday, November 22, 2011

git whoami

My favorite feature in bzr (Bazaar) is the bzr whoami command, which prints what your current identity (name and email) is, as far as the repository is concerned. You can tell I haven't used bzr much if that's as far as I have gotten. But seriously, with so many Git repositories around, several project identities, directory-specific shell configuration, and so on, it's easy to get confused, and it's annoying to have to check and repair commits for correct user name and email all the time. So here is git whoami. This has already saved me so many headaches.
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous23 November, 2011 19:33

    To avoid reimplementing git's logic: "git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT"

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    1. Unknown27 February, 2012 06:13

      That would look to be a more reasonable way, but it has an undocumented output format with some timestamp, so it's not clear how to use it reliably.

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  2. Daniel Baumann24 November, 2011 10:27

    included in git-stuff as of version 9-1 in debian.

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  3. Andrés05 December, 2011 10:15

    Cool idea! I had missed an easy way to check and until now I didn't realize I had the same problem.

    By the way, I've just realized that there is an easy way to do the same by means of git aliases [1]. I actually use a lot of them, so what I did for having "git whoami" is to set a new one:

    whoami = config --get user.email

    That will do the job! Hope this helps.

    [1] http://gitready.com/intermediate/2009/02/06/helpful-command-aliases.html

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  4. Unknown10 December, 2011 12:21

    @Andrés: That will only report the email address, not the name, and it won't account for environment variable overrides.

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