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Today I've made some improvements to how commit message emails are configured when you check in code. You now have the ability to set the "from" address when email gets committed. In addition, users can also add their real name.

This has two benefits.

1. You can have a real name show up instead of <subversion_user_name>@sci.utah.edu
2. If you are an external collaborator and don't actually have a sci mail account, people have an easy way to contact you.

Before

from: bigler@sci.utah.edu

After

from: "James Bigler" <bigler@sci.utah.edu>
from: "James Bigler" <bigler@cs.utah.edu>
from: bigler@cs.utah.edu

You can set this up from the subversion user manager page:

https://code.sci.utah.edu/cgi-bin/user_manage

There are three additional fields:

Name
E-mail
Affiliation (currently only informational)

Depending on which fields you fill in you can get different from addresses:

                Name Blank           Name Filled
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E-mail Blank    user@sci.utah.edu   "John User" <user@sci.utah.edu>
               (current default)
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E-mail Filled   mail@example.com    "Jane User" <mail@example.com>

This is especially important to get the information for external collaborators, as the rest of us have valid sci accounts. It will also help us to keep track of our external collaborators that make use of our repository, so please forward this message on to your external collaborators.

Please send any questions my way.

Thanks,
James

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• [Manta] subversion commit messages, James Bigler, 01/29/2008

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