see https://github.com/pivotal/git-author/issues/22 for a full reproduction of the real issue in our development environment.
In multi-repo development environments (all of CF) we'd like to be able to set authors for all repos globally, every time. We also use git aliases heavily. git-author fits most of our needs, but leaves a small gap where using git with ab cd can set local repo state. Once that state is set, it frequently sticks around and sneaks into our commit messages. We'd like to effectively disable running git with without the --global flag, and it seems like an environment variable would make that really easy.
see https://github.com/pivotal/git-author/issues/22 for a full reproduction of the real issue in our development environment.
In multi-repo development environments (all of CF) we'd like to be able to set authors for all repos globally, every time. We also use git aliases heavily. git-author fits most of our needs, but leaves a small gap where using
git with ab cdcan set local repo state. Once that state is set, it frequently sticks around and sneaks into our commit messages. We'd like to effectively disable runninggit withwithout the--globalflag, and it seems like an environment variable would make that really easy.