How to set @macports up e-mail alias?

[Ryan Schmidt]

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 at 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.