git-config

As far as I know, only a single user's identity may be specified with git config. I have a situation where I'd like to have multiple identities for the same git repository, depending on the UNIX user. The repository is at /var/www. When user jack makes a commit to it, the commit should automatically be jack's identity. When user jill makes a commit, jill's identity should be used. The reason why I want to use the same repository is because it's the content of a website, and Apache is looking in /var/www. The contents are NOT user-specific, so using Apache's userdir feature is not an option

I use git to push commited changes to a repo that lies on a server. Now there is this Error: $ git push -u origin master fatal: bad config value for 'receive.denycurrentbranch' in ./config fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. What it looks like in the console Window Now I suppose that this error might be due to some failures in the SSH connection. I use PuTTY to connect via SSH to my webserver. However, I'm still a noob and i don't know exactly how this works. So what I've tried is that I genereated the

Git 2.10 introduced git push options ( git push -o "my string" ). Many command line options are configurable, and I was wondering if it was possible for this too. I was not able to find it in git-config , but perhaps I'm overlooking it. So, would it be possible to add a (set of) default push option(s), to have ... git push -o "r=joh.doe" ... the default when running ... git push ? Context: I am using this with Gerrit to directly assign changes to reviewers ( documentation for reference - using compatible syntax <push-ref>%my_string ). When uploading many changes and working in pairs to review

I'm outputting to a terminal, but Git is not correctly detecting that I'm outputting to a terminal, for the purposes of coloring the output. My question is, what does git-config(1) really mean when it says "colors are used only when the output is to a terminal" (this phrase appears at the end of multiple config descriptions, such as for color.ui and color.branch)? In other words, how does Git decide whether or not it's outputting to a terminal, and how do I change my environment settings to inform Git that my terminal is indeed a terminal? Specifics: I'm using rxvt terminal with Cygwin on

Git asking to hit return button to open the mergetool for each conflict file one by one: > git mergetool Normal merge conflict for '...': {local}: modified file {remote}: modified file Hit return to start merge resolution tool (opendiff): How can I avoid the hitting return step for my project and just open the configured merge tool automatically? Use the -y flag. From the documentation : -y --no-prompt Don’t prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program. To permanently skip the prompt, run: git config --global mergetool.prompt false To skip it for a single run of git mergetool

I created a Git alias based off of the Git Immersion tutorial by EdgeCase that looks like this: hist = log --pretty=format:\"%h %ad | %s%d [%an]\" --graph --date=short But now it seems to be paging the results — Terminal shows (END) after the results are displayed, forcing me to hit Q to continue working. I read that by adding in the --no-pager tag, you can disable this feature; how do I incorporate it into the alias? I've tried it at the end, before the log , and right after, and none of them have worked. Git throws an error saying it is an unrecognized argument, or that it changes