Re: [PATCH] import-tars: separate author from committer

> The import-tars script is typically employed to (re)create the past
> history of a project from stored tars. Although assigning authorship in
> these cases can be a somewhat arbitrary process, it makes sense to set
> the author to whoever created the tars in the first place (if it's
> known), and (s)he can in general be different from the committer
> (whoever is running the script).
> 
> Implement this by having separate author and committer data, making them
> settable from the usual GIT_* environment variables.
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> 
> Or should I have made the ENV access a separate patch?