helpermethod

Sometimes you need to use a different username and email for a single pull request to impersonate a different user.

For that case, git provides the -c flag, which allows you to pass configuration parameters to the command you are about to execute.

The following command will create a commit with username silencer-bot and an empty email address.

git -c user.name=silencer-bot -c user.email= commit

Note that -c flags needs to be set right after the git command but before the subcommand (in this case, commit).