Documentation/config/user.txt

   1 user.name::
   2 user.email::
   3 author.name::
   4 author.email::
   5 committer.name::
   6 committer.email::
   7         The `user.name` and `user.email` variables determine what ends
   8         up in the `author` and `committer` field of commit
   9         objects.
  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 +
  17 Note that the `name` forms of these variables conventionally refer to
  18 some form of a personal name.  See linkgit:git-commit[1] and the
  19 environment variables section of linkgit:git[1] for more information on
  20 these settings and the `credential.username` option if you're looking
  21 for authentication credentials instead.
  22
  23 user.useConfigOnly::
  24         Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email`
  25         and `user.name`, and instead retrieve the values only from the
  26         configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses
  27         and would like to use a different one for each repository, then
  28         with this configuration option set to `true` in the global config
  29         along with a name, Git will prompt you to set up an email before
  30         making new commits in a newly cloned repository.
  31         Defaults to `false`.
  32
  33 user.signingKey::
  34         If linkgit:git-tag[1] or linkgit:git-commit[1] is not selecting the
  35         key you want it to automatically when creating a signed tag or
  36         commit, you can override the default selection with this variable.
  37         This option is passed unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter,
  38         so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports.