config: allow giving separate author and committer idents

The author.email, author.name, committer.email and committer.name
settings are analogous to the GIT_AUTHOR_* and GIT_COMMITTER_*
environment variables, but for the git config system. This allows them
to be set separately for each repository.

Git supports setting different authorship and committer
information with environment variables. However, environment variables
are set in the shell, so if different authorship and committer
information is needed for different repositories an external tool is
required.

This adds support to git config for author.email, author.name,
committer.email and committer.name  settings so this information
can be set per repository.

Also, it generalizes the fmt_ident function so it can handle author vs
committer identification.

Signed-off-by: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 49713cc5a5..bb78eb9a3a 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1479,10 +1479,19 @@ int date_overflows(timestamp_t date);
 #define IDENT_STRICT	       1
 #define IDENT_NO_DATE	       2
 #define IDENT_NO_NAME	       4
+
+enum want_ident {
+	WANT_BLANK_IDENT,
+	WANT_AUTHOR_IDENT,
+	WANT_COMMITTER_IDENT
+};
+
 extern const char *git_author_info(int);
 extern const char *git_committer_info(int);
-extern const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email, const char *date_str, int);
-extern const char *fmt_name(const char *name, const char *email);
+extern const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email,
+		enum want_ident whose_ident,
+		const char *date_str, int);
+extern const char *fmt_name(enum want_ident);
 extern const char *ident_default_name(void);
 extern const char *ident_default_email(void);
 extern const char *git_editor(void);