Accessing codespace creators First and Last name via codespaces ENV variables

[TheLarkInn]

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As a part of being able to contribute to rushstack, we require committers to set their local git config user name and email to look like the following:

> git config --local user.name "Sean Larkin"
> git config --local user.email "thelarkinn@users.noreply.github.com"

I am currently revamping our codespaces dev container for the project and I would like to automate this process for the user when they open a new codespace. I attempted to use GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL and GIT_COMMTTER_NAME from ENV however they are both empty when I access them. I can use GITHUB_USER to automatically populate the user.email.

Question: Is there any way (via environment variables, or other settings) that I can fetch the codespace creator's first/last name so I can automatically setup these git config settings as a part of the postLoad scripts for the dev container.

[eljog]

Hi @TheLarkInn,
Codespaces always have the user.name and user.email set in the git config. They are set at --system level (not --local), and it should work for all git scenarios.
You can see them by running git config --list or git config --list --system.

[TheLarkInn]

Nice I'll experiment with this and see if I can assign the git config user.name to git config --local user.name!

[niksumeiko]

Did you managed to assign to —local?