From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:53:09 GMT
Subject: Re: git-commit: allow From: line to be entered in commit message
Message-ID: <43C6CFC5.5010902@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmm1mcfz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> If you typed that line, why somebody else's change ended up in
> your working tree is a mystery to me, but let's say an
> office-mate edited things for you and said "this should work.
> test it out and if it is OK commit it for me."  I have seen this
> kind of thing done in real life.
> 

This happens from time to time where I work, but I think it would be 
more useful to have

	--from="Some User <some.user@theoffice.org>"

which would save even more typing.

I had thought of coupling this with some translation-scheme thingie, so 
that "--from=jd" would be automagically converted to the proper name and 
email address. I first came to think about this when I imported most of 
our projects from CVS, but I ended up doing a quick-hack to 
git-cvsimport instead.

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