7 The `user.name` and `user.email` variables determine what ends
8 up in the `author` and `committer` field of commit
10 If you need the `author` or `committer` to be different, the
11 `author.name`, `author.email`, `committer.name` or
12 `committer.email` variables can be set.
13 Also, all of these can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`,
14 `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`,
15 `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL` and `EMAIL` environment variables.
16 See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for more information.
19 Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email`
20 and `user.name`, and instead retrieve the values only from the
21 configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses
22 and would like to use a different one for each repository, then
23 with this configuration option set to `true` in the global config
24 along with a name, Git will prompt you to set up an email before
25 making new commits in a newly cloned repository.
29 If linkgit:git-tag[1] or linkgit:git-commit[1] is not selecting the
30 key you want it to automatically when creating a signed tag or
31 commit, you can override the default selection with this variable.
32 This option is passed unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter,
33 so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports.