GitHub Enterprise repos need their own e-mail setting or default of LDAP account email

Description

I have repos that I use/contribute to via this GitHub.com account. I also have GitHub repos that I use via my corporate GitHub Enterprise account which uses a completely different e-mail address than my regular GitHub.com account (business is business and my other stuff isn’t business).

However, the GH Desktop client seems to default everything to my personal e-mail address (associated with this account) – including the GitHub Enterprise connections. So all of my commits are now attributed to a different user/e-mail that doesn’t exist on GH Enterprise. Being I don’t have access to add any additional (read: non corporate) e-mail addresses to my GH Enterprise account, I can’t do the “easy” solution to have those commits tied to my account via additional e-mails.

It would be super awesome if there was a way to configure GH Dekstop to automagically use a specific e-mail/account for GH Enterprise repos. Specifically it should default to LDAP Sync’d e-mail assigned to your account. This would also prevent the problem when one uses their username based e-mail address rather than their marketing friendly name based e-mail address: [e-mail] VS [e-mail]

LDAP sync to GH Enterprise thinks I’m [e-mail], but I login with and basically exclusively use [e-mail]. So this is a bit confusing for me as a user to try to fix things (not due to GHE or desktop, but to how my company has things configured). So some sort of “default” email for GHE as mentioned above would fix/prevent such confusion.

The current issues has been resolved going forward (at the moment at least) with “git config user.email” and historically with “Changing author info” – thanks for the solid knowledge base BTW – but when I inevitably get a new workstation or blow up my current OS and reinstall, I’m going to totally forget to run the one time git config user.email and I’m going to have to do this again… Please save me from my own forgetfulness.

Version

GitHub Desktop version: 1.0.0

OS version: Windows 10 Enterprise 1703 64 Bit

Steps to Reproduce

1. Login via desktop to both GH and GH Enterprise using different accounts/emails for each (it’s extremely likely that I logged into GH first, but I’m only like 99.99999% positive of that)
2. Commit something to GH Enterprise
3. See that commit was not attributed to your GH Enterprise user

Expected behavior: Commits should always be attributed to the GH Enterprise user when committing to a GH Enterprise repo. If committing to DIFFERENT GH Enterprise servers/repos with DIFFERENT accounts, use the correct account accordingly.

Actual behavior: Standard GH account is used for the commit.

Reproduces how often: every time until you fix with git config user.email

Edit: Finished some thoughts, and corrected some typos. Nothing major.

[Seb33300]

Maybe a new tab could be added to the repository settings panel to configure name and email to use for the repository (leave blank to use default configured in global options).

This tab could be a way to display / edit values from

git config --local user.name
git config --local user.email

[iAmWillShepherd]

Thanks so much for your feedback @kmscode . This seems like something a lot of other people can benefit from as well!