From: J. Bakshi <joydeep@infoservices.in>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:48:38 GMT
Subject: Re: How to force git to use authentication as author
Message-ID: <20110714161838.1e30893a@shiva.selfip.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX4X8qRBXqwi70kZ0eZ+mb7rdD6p36xD=GoX6soha0TZcg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:38:59 +0200
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:36, J. Bakshi <joydeep@infoservices.in> wrote:
> 
> > How can I force git to use the username as define at /home/git/PASSWD as the author name for git commit ?
> 
> Edit the global bashrc to have:
> 
>     export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$(cat ~/PASSWD)
> 
> ?

Thanks. 

[1] will it work with file generated by htpasswd ? as that file is actually created by same (/home/git/PASSWD)

[2] And the commit is over http, So is it effective to set the value by .bashrc ?