Using different comitter emails for different projects?

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "Staffan" == Staffan Gimåker <staffan at gimaker.se> writes:

    Staffan> Hello list,
    Staffan> I work on both open source projects and work-related projects from the same 
    Staffan> machine, and whilst commits on my open source projects should use my regular 
    Staffan> email, commits on work branches should use my job email instead.

    Staffan> It was easy enough to edit branch.conf to override the default email setting, 
    Staffan> but this manual override isn't propagated when I branch. Alas I have to 
    Staffan> resort to manually editing branch.conf every time I make a branch where I 
    Staffan> don't want the default -- this is both tedious and error prone.

    Staffan> Is there a better way? A way to propagate the email
    Staffan> setting when branching, perhaps? Or a
    Staffan> repository-level configuration that can be made?

If your projects are organized in different hierarchies, you may
use locations.conf like:

[/home/staffan/work]
email = staffan at work
[/home/staffan/floss]
email = staffan at floss

You also look at

  http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-reference/bzr_man.html#configuration-settings

for the gory details.

  Vincent