From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:01:10 GMT
Subject: Re: GPG signing for git commit?
Message-ID: <20090417120110.GC29121@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <slrngufuke.1am.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 03:42:07AM +0000, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:

> > Uhm, yea.  That's a fault of gitosis then.  It knows the key that
> > was used, and has that mapped back to some token that identifies that
> > account in the configuration file.  Why it doesn't push that into the
> > GIT_COMMITTER_* environment before launching git-shell, I don't know.
> 
> If you set GIT_COMMITTER_*, won't it change the SHA of the
> commit itself?  I always thought so...

No. Pushing will never create a new commit, so there are no new SHA-1s
calculated. But the reflog entry will contain GIT_COMMITTER_*, and is a
simple text file.

-Peff