>I'm also curious what's the real use case for this tool. After >skimming through the description only pair (hot-seat?) programming >seems like a good fit, otherwise one just does
> $ git add --local user.name ... > $ git add --local user.email ... wouldn't it also be useful for switching if you use one profile when working for company X and another one for company Y and so forth? I guess if you were doing a whole day for company Y you would just switch normally, but if you needed to just put in a quick bug fix? Would this also apply if you had different profiles for different git services? Best Regards, Bryan Rasmussen On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:21:37 -0800 (PST) > [email protected] wrote: > >> I've created a Git plugin called Gitsu that makes it easier to switch >> between Git users. Briefly, it adds a "git su" command that updates >> your configured user name and email address. It also supports >> switching to multiple users at once for pair programming. Source and >> documentation are available at http://drrb.github.io/gitsu. Feedback >> and suggestions are welcome. > > Please consider announcing this tool on the main Git list [1] as well. > > If you won't mind, my feedback is "why Ruby?" Git's internals use C, > POSIX shell, Perl and Tcl/Tk (for its two stock GUI applications), and > this is what gets distributed with Git for Window and this is what's > required to be present on POSIX systems when installing Git. So while > I'm not advocating for Perl (or POSIX shell or Tcl) vs Ruby on their > technical merits, writing this tool in one of those languages would > make chances for adoption of your tool quite bigger. > > I'm also curious what's the real use case for this tool. After > skimming through the description only pair (hot-seat?) programming > seems like a good fit, otherwise one just does > > $ git add --local user.name ... > $ git add --local user.email ... > > to have a repository-local username and e-mail, when needed. > > And one minor point: the page you linked to is well-put but lacks a link > to the project's page (or it's location is not obvious). > > 1. https://gist.github.com/tfnico/4441562 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Git for human beings" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
