As part of my dayjob, I did and still do some work on an upstream project. A while ago, I was granted commit access to that project. However, upstream asked that I would register with their system using a private email, or at least one that wouldn't change if I changed jobs, rather than my work email.
Now, I (and my employer) would like that the work I do as part of my current job on that project has my work email in the Author field, but since the commit access was granted to me privately/personally, it would be nice if the Committer email was the one I used to register with their system. I can set GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL in the environment, but that is rather inconvenient, since that means I have to remember to do that in the shell I'm using for that particular project, and I can't use that shell for other projects. So it would be really nice if I could set commit.email = $private-email in the local .git/config for that particular project. I don't personally have a use for commit.name (when missing, that should just use user.name as usual), but it would probably be most consistent to allow that too. I tried looking into ident.c, but it doesn't seem like it is straight-forward to implement. Probably fmt_ident, ident_default_email etc. would need to be passed information about what purpose the ident is to be used for. So before trying to implement this, I want to hear if this is a reasonable thing to support. Also, I'm sure there are some subtle semantics that would need to be decided and gotchas to watch out for. Rasmus
