Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac

Re:Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac by SysArchitect on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:53PM (#12384746)

I can't even test the functionality because it won't let me pass the first screen because I don't have config user.email set in my gitconfig.

http://imgur.com/a/T4s4o

I have a pre-commit hook that is installed on all new repo's I create/clone that warns me, and then I set an email address PER REPO. This way I can work on both $WORK and open source projects on the same machine while having different email addresses per repository.

The assumption that a user needs to have user.email set globally breaks my entire work-flow.

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Re:Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac by DanPristupov on Monday August 29, 2016 @04:09PM (#12384894)

Hi. Didn't even think about such a requirement. In next version I'll make credentials optional (with a warning though).

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Re:Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac by cm3 on Monday August 29, 2016 @04:44PM (#12385162)

People shouldn't use git without having configured that. It would prevent incorrect commits landing in public repositories. Actually git defaults to some made-up local git author if it's not set, and that's less useful and sometimes invalid, provoking git-fsck errors.

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Re:Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac by spicyj on Monday August 29, 2016 @08:51PM (#12386592)

Git explicitly shows a "Committer" line when typing the commit message if it chooses a default, so I also find not setting one globally and getting this reminder to be more useful:

  # Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
  # with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
  #
  # Committer: Ben Alpert <[email protected]>
  #
  # On branch master
  # Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
  #

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Re:Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac by yladiz on Monday August 29, 2016 @07:24PM (#12386229)

I agree. A potential middle ground would be a small button that lets them skip that screen with a second confirmation dialog box with a warning about it.

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Re:Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac by frio on Monday August 29, 2016 @04:59PM (#12385260)

FWIW, I solve this problem with ~/src/work and ~/src/personal. My default, system-wide config in .gitconfig are my personal creds. In ~/src/work, I have a direnv (http://direnv.net/) which configures my work credentials.

I used to do something similar to you, but this has been less effort to maintain/less repetition :) (which is nice, as our internal structure is lots of micro-repos so you're constantly cloning new things, and constantly adding creds becomes a hassle).

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