Git Mob uses Git global config (v2.1.0)

[rkotze]

Selected co-authors are stored globally meaning when switching between projects your co-authors stay the same.

It's likely you will see a warning message because previous versions set a local commit template.

If you've set a local commit template in your config then that template will be updated as usual. However, not when you switch projects. You will see selected co-authors if you run git mob command but they will not be in your template. You can update the template by running the git mob <author initials> command.

If you're only using the template for Git Mob, then it's recommended to remove your local commit.template config and use the global config.

How to migrate to the global setup:

• Remove local template: git config --local --unset commit.template
• Re-run git mob <author initials> to update to the global commit template.

This does not affect the git mob-print command as it reads the globally selected co-authors.

I use the local commit template

In the situation, you are using a local commit template and want to suppress the warning message you can. See Git Mob config in the readme for more information. This change is released in version 2.2.0.

CD into your project and run the following:

git config --local git-mob-config.use-local-template true

We don't force the use of a global template as this would not follow the priority order of Git config.

[niksumeiko]

After migrating to the global setup, I don't see the co-author trailer is added to my commits. The git mob command outputs current co-authors, but when committing, nothing is appended to the commit.

[rkotze]

Sorry to hear that @niksumeiko

Do you see any error message?

The key thing is to make sure the git config has a commit.template with a valid path.

[niksumeiko]

Thanks for the tip, @rkotze. The issue was indeed in the path to my commit.template. After migrating to using a local commit template by following the guidelines in this discussion description, the path was still referring to my global one:

$ git config --local --get commit.template
# ~/.gitmessage

But my husky .husky/prepare-commit-msg hook was using the local one:

file=.git/.gitmessage

Therefore, after running git mob xy, the trailer was written in my global commit.template, but not in the local one. And husky was not picking it (since it was looking at the contents of .git/.gitmessage).

The fix was to set the path properly:

git config --local commit.template .git/.gitmessage

After this, the git mob xy command was writing the trailer into the local commit.template and husky picked it properly 🎉

[rkotze]

Glad you got that resolved and thank you for sharing your learnings.