Re: [PATCH] wt-status: show author info if status.showauthor is set

From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Date: Apr 4, 2007, 06:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20070404064917.GE31984@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <20070404062447.GA4136@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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> Quoting Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> Subject: [PATCH] wt-status: show author info if status.showauthor is set
> 
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> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:02:13AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> > - Maybe put Author: (or From:? and maybe Subject:?) line in the pre-formatted
> >   commit message, and let the user edit them?
> 
> Personally I think it's just clutter, but hey, it's off by default. Of
> course what is the chance that you've turned on status.showauthor in
> your ~/.gitconfig, but you don't have your identity set up properly? :)

The point is that *someone else* can have showauthor set up in .gitconfig, and then he'll be able to use git commit --amend to fix up the identity without using --author explicitly.

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