From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:30:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] am: gather GIT_AUTHOR_* from original commit when rebasing
Message-ID: <4C186F9D.1060608@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <1276641564-2074-1-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com>

Am 6/16/2010 0:39, schrieb Jay Soffian:
> +	if test -f "$dotest/original-commit"
> +	then
> +		original_commit="$(cat "$dotest/original-commit")"
> +		GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$(GIT_PAGER='' git log --format=%an -1 "$original_commit")"
> +		GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$(GIT_PAGER='' git log --format=%ae -1 "$original_commit")"
> +		GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="$(GIT_PAGER='' git log --format=%aD -1 "$original_commit")"

I think you can use the function get_author_ident_from_commit() for this.
See git-sh-setup.

-- Hannes