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List:       macports-dev
Subject:    Re: How to set @macports up e-mail alias?
From:       Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign () macports ! org>
Date:       2020-03-19 2:54:47
Message-ID: 25EB4439-9815-4368-ABFA-C9C8B58458B7 () macports ! org
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On Mar 17, 2020, at 16:40, Fred Wright wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > On Mar 15, 2020, at 21:22, Joshua Root wrote:
> > 
> > > On 2020-3-16 04:14 , Eric A. Borisch wrote:
> > > > It's been a decade since I set it up previously, and we've moved over to
> > > > GitHub Authentication in the interim. Any special directions for how to
> > > > set up a committer's @macports.org <http://macports.org> account now?
> > > 
> > > Are we talking about adding a new committer to the project, or an
> > > existing committer who doesn't have a working @macports.org email alias
> > > for some reason?
> > > 
> > > If the former, they need to apply to PortMgr as documented at
> > > <https://guide.macports.org/chunked/project.membership.html>.
> > > 
> > > If the latter, email <admin@macports.org> and the infrastructure team
> > > should be able to help.
> > 
> > Josh's answer is correct if you were asking about how to configure what email \
> > address your @macports.org alias forwards to. 
> > But if you were asking how to get Git to associate your commits with your \
> > @macports.org email address, then instructions for that are here: 
> > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/WorkingWithGit#setup
> 
> And *those* instructions are probably not correct if you use git for anything other \
> than MacPorts, assuming that you don't want to use your MacPorts alias for \
> non-MacPorts uses. 
> There are both global and per-repo settings in git.  In the general case, one would \
> use the per-repo settings for the MacPorts-related repo(s). It's the same commands \
> without the --global, but while cd'ed to the relevant repo(s).

That's a good point. I forgot that our page tells users to edit the global setting. I \
didn't do that on my own system; I just changed individual MacPorts repos as I cloned \
them. (Though I did also forget to do so a few times, and consequently made several \
commits with the wrong address.) We should probably advise users to configure their \
clones of their MacPorts repos this way, not change the global setting. Anyone can \
edit the wiki to improve the instructions.


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