From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:43:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] import-tars: separate author from committer Message-ID: <20090320144352.GZ23521@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <1237543070-4909-1-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > 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. > --- > > Or should I have made the ENV access a separate patch? Looks fine to me. Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce -- Shawn.