From: J. Bakshi <joydeep@infoservices.in>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:36:38 GMT
Subject: How to force git to use authentication as author
Message-ID: <20110714160638.065b6542@shiva.selfip.org>

Hello,

I have setup a git repo which is protected with user authentication set by apache it self.

<Location /git>
AuthType Basic
# Message to give to the committer
AuthName "Write access requires a password"
# File listing users with write (commit) access
AuthUserFile /home/git/PASSWD
Require valid-user
</Location>

Now users are required to use their authentication as per /home/git/PASSWD file ( generated by htpasswd) . How can I force git to use the username as define at /home/git/PASSWD as the author name for git commit ?

Thanks