From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:16:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
Message-ID: <20110217221645.GA10007@elie>
In-Reply-To: <7vpqqqbfgr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> Wait, does this mean that -c/-C/--amend/CHERRY_PICK_HEAD overrides
>> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, and GIT_AUTHOR_DATE?
[...]
> Hmph, -c/-C/--amend is like giving the identity with --author from the
> command line so overriding the values from the environment variables
> sounds like the right thing to do.

Good point.  There are two principles at work here:

 - options with more specific effect override more general ones
 - options on the command line override the environment

On second thought, the latter does seem more relevant (though it need
not apply to CHERRY_PICK_HEAD).

Thanks for a sanity check.
Jonathan