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Re: commit.template

From
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date
Dec 26, 2008, 23:50 UTC
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<200812261750.12204.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
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On Friday 2008 December 26 16:42:09 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
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> NS> Didn't you mean "Signed-off-by: 積丹尼 <jidanni@jidanni.org>"?
>
> No. I want in fact just to use "Signed-off-by: jidanni@jidanni.org",
> but apparently
> 1) man git-config mentions
>        commit.template
>            Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
>
> but doesn't mention what file is being used presently, so one can know
> what to adjust.

git commit --help tells how this configuration option is used, in the documentation of the "-t" option.

> 3) Making a line without a name would probably break other things.
Well, then use your legal name -- unicode is allowed.
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