From: Joel Becker Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:58:55 GMT Subject: Re: git-commit: allow From: line to be entered in commit message Message-ID: <20060113065855.GJ14196@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <7vhd89mc0y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:22:53PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Committing somebody else's changes by hand ought to be a rare > event. Otherwise that is an indication that there needs to be a >... > Most of the time when I use "git commit", I'll be committing my > own changes; I do not want to see "From: me" every time I > commit. Well, I'm wary of putting GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=joel.becker@oracle.com as a permanent part of my environment, for fear of overriding some other authors at some point. On the other hand, if I don't put it in the environment, I get a bogus author line (jlbec@thisbox.oracle.com). So I end up having to hand-write the AUTHOR_EMAIL lines on each commit line; not a solution I'm happy with. This way, I'd have a chance to edit it and be sure :-) Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #274 "Leave everything a little better than you found it." Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127