From: Petr Baudis Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:10:56 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Tell vim the textwidth is 75. Message-ID: <20050729111056.GR24895@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:55:52AM CEST, I got a letter where Catalin Marinas told me that... > Petr Baudis wrote: > > The committer field generally identifies the committer "physically", and > > isn't usually overriden. You'll find in my > > committer field, e.g. > > I thought GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME,EMAIL} were added to be able to override > the defaults like username@localmachine. Yes, but IIRC only for rather special cases like recommitting older commits, importing from other VCSes, etc. > The latest StGIT snapshot uses, by default, the committer's details > for the From: line when sending patches by e-mail, assuming that this > is a valid e-mail address. One can define his own e-mail template and > use a different From: line but I thought it would be simpler to > provide some defaults based on this. Why don't you rather use the GIT_AUTHOR_* variables? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox