Re: How to force git to use authentication as author

From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Jul 14, 2011, 11:00 UTC
Message-ID: <1310641202.18730.16.camel@bee.lab.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <20110714161838.1e30893a@shiva.selfip.org>

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 16:18 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:

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> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:38:59 +0200
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:36, J. Bakshi <joydeep@infoservices.in>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > How can I force git to use the username as define
> at /home/git/PASSWD as the author name for git commit ?
> > 
> > Edit the global bashrc to have:
> > 
> >     export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$(cat ~/PASSWD)
> > 
> > ?
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> [1] will it work with file generated by htpasswd ? as that file is
> actually created by same (/home/git/PASSWD)

Not directly, if it only has one line, then $(cat ~/PASSWD | cut -d ':' -f 1) should work, but I haven't tested it.

> 
> [2] And the commit is over http, So is it effective to set the value
> by .bashrc ?

You are misunderstanding either how git works or the nomenclature. The commits all happen locally and need no authentication whatsoever (and usually you're expected to use a real name and email address). When you need to authenticate is when yuou push your changes somewhere (a central repo, for example). This is where the ~/.netrc file comes into play, as I mentioned in the reply to your other mail.

Cheers,
   cmn