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Force Git to set e-mail address in working copy

It may be my personal quirk, but I really dislike that Git pulls an email address from global config unless you override it on per-repo basis. Or worse, makes up an email address from whoami or whatever. I just learned that there is a config option to make it stop doing this.

git config --global --unset user.email
git config --global user.useConfigOnly true

Now email addresses have to be set on a per-repo basis.

Source: StackOverflow

Also, see multiple personalities in Git.