Git commit author in Project mode - Query

[SandeepA]

Hi ,

Where does NR take the details of Author for Project commit.
I see a very interesting behaviour.

1. I do not have adminAuth enabled in settings.js. I do changes and commit. Git shows the Author as Node-RedSA and my personal email ID.
2. I enabled adminAuth in settings.js. My user is "admin". Now when i do changes and commit, Git shows Author as details of my work email ID.

So just wondering how does NR derive the Author details for Git.

[knolleary]

It either uses the values you gave it when you setup projects originally - which can also be edited via the 'Git config' tab of User Settings:

Or it will fall back to whatever your git client's defaults are set to.

[SandeepA]

@knolleary - in my case i have not yet using Committer Details.
But how does one explain - what is being used when adminAuth is enabled vs. not enabled. I would assume in case of defaults it should be same in both cases.

[SandeepA]

Any clues ? Anyone ? Thanks in advance.

[knolleary]

I assume you are running as the same system user before/after making those adminAuth changes?

Have a look in ~/.node-red/.config.users.json. The contents is a JSON Object, with the top level key being the adminAuth user... with _ used for the case when adminAuth isn't enabled.

Under each user should be a git section - under that will be globalUser and user. Does that correlate at all with what you see?

[SandeepA]

@knolleary

I assume you are running as the same system user before/after making those adminAuth changes?

Yes. This is correct. I am on the same system.

I checked the ~/.node-red/.config.users.json .

For _ - The git user does correspond to what i see when adminAuth is disabled.
For admin - The git user/pass is empty in config.users.json - so i assume it takes it from git configuration. The strange part now is when i do git config --list ... i dont see any name and email.

I continue to check.

Thanks Nick for guiding me to the correct direction.