I'd like to use `git-commit-signoff` from Magit (an Emacs frontend for git) to add a “Signed-off-by:”-line to the commit. This command uses the git settings user.name and user.email. The problem is, that the global values are used, not the local (in .git/config) ones. I believe it is because repoman creates COMMIT_EDITMSG inside /tmp¹ but git creates it in .git (or $GIT_DIR). Is there a reason why it is put in /tmp? Can we change it to .git? ¹ <https://github.com/gentoo/portage/blob/0d7aa0d4991f402c2ff7c386419e177a5244c9a0/repoman/lib/repoman/actions.py#L584> Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd to a Gentoo repository with git 2. git config --local user.email test@example.invalid 3. Make a change and git add it 4. EDITOR=emacs repoman commit 5. (In Emacs) git-commit-signoff Actual Results: The global values for user.name and user.email are used. Expected Results: The local values for user.name and user.email are used.
repoman support has been removed per bug 835013. Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.
