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I used to work at a startup with a character who would set his identity to be random fairytale-sounding nonsense, changing every day. So his commits on Monday would be attributed to Mr. Bunnymann, and Tuesday would be Doctor Funtime, etc. It was super unhelpful when trying to do version control forensics. But if I'm being generous, I think maybe he was trying to remind everyone that anyone can put anything in their i…
One even-better approach IMHO Just keep a .gitconfig in your HOME with aliases for your identities. Then just after initializing/cloning the repo do git config-company or git config-personal er453r@r7:~$ cat ~/.gitconfig [user] useConfigOnly = true [alias] config-personal = !echo CONFIG-PERSONAL && \ git config --local user.email 'personal@email.com' && \ git config --local user.name 'personal' && \ git config --loca…
I used to work at a startup with a character who would set his identity to be random fairytale-sounding nonsense, changing every day. So his commits on Monday would be attributed to Mr. Bunnymann, and Tuesday would be Doctor Funtime, etc. It was super unhelpful when trying to do version control forensics. But if I'm being generous, I think maybe he was trying to remind everyone that anyone can put anything in their i…
I used to work at a startup with a character who would set his identity to be random fairytale-sounding nonsense, changing every day. So his commits on Monday would be attributed to Mr. Bunnymann, and Tuesday would be Doctor Funtime, etc. It was super unhelpful when trying to do version control forensics. But if I'm being generous, I think maybe he was trying to remind everyone that anyone can put anything in their i…
People paid him for such nonsense?
I always strongly advise consultants to use a separate machine for work, or at the very least a separate OS user. You’re risking putting yourself in a whole lot of trouble by using a personal machine for work.
I used to work at a startup with a character who would set his identity to be random fairytale-sounding nonsense, changing every day. So his commits on Monday would be attributed to Mr. Bunnymann, and Tuesday would be Doctor Funtime, etc. It was super unhelpful when trying to do version control forensics. But if I'm being generous, I think maybe he was trying to remind everyone that anyone can put anything in their i…
Did he use the same signing key? (If we are being generous)
I do something similar, but instead of `insteadOf`, I just clone the repo with `gh-work:org/repo`, and in the git config: [includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:gh-work:**/**"] path = ~/.gitconfig.d/gh-work.inc So, any git repo cloned with the ssh identity defined under `gh-work` will take on the config of `gh-work.inc`, which includes the git identity, and also the same signing key as in the ssh config. Essentially, the…
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Did he use the same signing key? (If we are being generous)
I don't think you can -- the key's identity needs to match the name/comment/email it was generated with. You would have to regenerate after every name change to have them all verified (and keep them all in file with the got server afterwards, too).
Is that "/" an "and", or an "or"? I'd expect only e-mail has to match, leaving you free to change the user name.
Why have multiple git identities in the same machine? I use a single different key with each machine and that's it.
I use different accounts for my work GitHub and my personal GitHub, so this approach would be great if I shared a machine for both of them to keep separation.
Is a `dotfiles` repo personal? I don't usually push to my own repos from my work machines, but I do want to pull and push config updates while not disclosing my work email there or rewrite commits all the time (it's not secret, I just don't want it there).
I always strongly advise consultants to use a separate machine for work, or at the very least a separate OS user. You’re risking putting yourself in a whole lot of trouble by using a personal machine for work.
Care to elaborate in what circumstances is it a problem and why?
Edit: I mostly asked the parent poster to provide more context and avoid general assertions like "a whole lot of trouble". Risks are indeed tangible, but if we are unable to enumerate them, we are mostly spreading FUD instead of educating.