Re: [git-users] Environment expansion in .gitconfig?

[Magnus Therning]

Michael Forbes <michael.for...@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,


expansion in the .gitconfig file:

I am trying to find a good solution to this use-case that seems to require 1. Multiple users share the same account on a machine (this is using CoCalc <http://cocalc.org> where the user is the project id so changing this is

not an option).

user made the commit.



[ui]
username = $LC_HG_USERNAME

This fails in the .gitconfig file as expansion is not performed
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11262010/shell-variable-expansion-in-git-config/11262153#11262153>.

file:

git config --global user.name=$LC_GIT_USERNAME



logged in at the same time.

Any suggestions for how to get git to work nicely in this case?

2. We would like to be able to use git, but with proper recording of which I work this with mercurial by having each user set an environment variable when they log in, and then adding the following to the project .hgrc file: A workaround suggested there is to do something like this in the .bashrc This means, however, that all commits will be logged as the last user who logged in - which mucks up the use case where multiple people might be

$LC_GIT_USERNAME properly, how is that done?


to *create* the proper ~/.gitconfig at the same time?

/M

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If I understand you correctly you rely on the logged in user setting If it's done using some script, maybe you can simply modify that script Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who

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