From: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:00:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git-commit: allow From: line to be entered in commit message
Message-ID: <20060112190031.GH14196@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060112093700.1d3d25db.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:37:00AM -0500, sean wrote:
> Use the author name and email information given as the 
> first line of the commit message in the form of:
> 
> From: name <email>
> 
> as the author's name and email address in the resulting
> commit object.  This makes committing foreign patches
> a little less cumbersome to handle for some workflows.

	If we do this, can we have it populated up front?  That is, when
the edit opens, the current idea of author is in the comments as "From:"
so I can see what the author would be if I changed nothing.  This would
catch surprises where I'd forgotten to set AUTHOR_*, etc.

Joel
 

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