Vscode-gitlens: Where do I change ${author}?

[pmahend1]

Where do I change ${author} ? Where does it come from?

[eamodio]

Sorry, I'm not sure what you are asking about.

[pmahend1]

@eamodio

I would like to change this value. In some commits only my first name is coming up. I would like to update it from CodeLens . Hope there is a way

[eamodio]

You can click on that _Commit Tokens_ link and it will take you to the documentation about those tokens. Also if you use use the GitLens interactive settings editor from the command palette run GitLens: Open Settings, you'll get a more guided experience

[pmahend1]

And where do I set value for the token author?

[eamodio]

Huh? You don't -- those are replacement tokens which come from the commit.

[pmahend1]

Ok. I get it but is there a way I can override this for a repository or all git repositories?
We have this feature in Visual studio Windows and Mac

[eamodio]

I'm sorry I really don't understand what you are trying to do. Those tokens come from the commits themselves -- which could all have different authors. So what do you mean by override?

Are you trying to change how Git displays a particular author?

[pmahend1]

Here is the query.

My full name is "ABC XYZ" , if I commit and push from other applications like Visual studio , Visual studio mac , then commit history shows author as ABC [e-mail]

When I commit and push from VS code its showing ABC [e-mail]

I would like to know if I change it to _ABC XYZ_ in VS Code or GitLens settings

Is that even possible.

Is there setting which does below things

$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

on VS Mac it looks like below

[eamodio]

Ah, VS Code Git doesn't offer an override for the author name -- it just uses your git config settings. I would suggest to set your global/local git config to the name you would like to have show up in your commits.

You can use the "mailmap" feature of Git (via a .mailmap file) to merge multiple commit identities into 1 (which GitLens will then honor).

Here is a good overview of Git mailmap (while this is from Atlassian it isn't Atlassian/Bitbucket specific): https://blog.developer.atlassian.com/aliasing-authors-in-git/

Hope that helps!

[pmahend1]

I could do it from command line but wanted to check git extension within VS code or GitLens support this. Thanks! May be I will add a request to support this to at VSCode (Source control). Would you be able to add it in Gitlens too?

[eamodio]

Feel free to open an issue on the vscode repo -- GitLens doesn't offer commit capability, so it isn't something that would apply to GitLens.

[discitechris]

@eamodio is there a way to show the $(author) token as "John Doe" instead of the rendered suffix "You".

[eamodio]

@discitechris No, that currently isn't an option. Could you explain why you would want that?

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