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Re: [PATCH JGIT] Compute the author/commiter name and email from the git configuration

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Feb 5, 2009, 15:38 UTC
Message-ID
<20090205153852.GF26880@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<498AC2F3.1010802@gmail.com>
Yann Simon <yann.simon.fr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The author/commiter name and email are retrieved from the system configuration
> and the local and global git configurations.
> 
> When the name is not available, propose one default by using the system user name.
> 
> When the email is not available, propose one default by concatenating the
> user name and the host name.
> 
> The author name and email are used as default value in the author field
> while committing with the GUI.
> 
> Fix issue 47 (field Author don't fill)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yann Simon <yann.simon.fr@gmail.com>
Applied, thanks.
-- 
Shawn.
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  1. Compute the author/commiter name and email from the git configurationYann Simon, Feb 5, 2009
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