From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:05:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Use SUDO_UID to guess committer identity
Message-ID: <7v63slnegm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080607071130.GZ12896@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> When invoking Git commands though sudo against a bare repository
> with reflogs enabled we should attempt to record the actual user's
> information in the reflog, not the identity of the user sudo entered.
>
> For example when executing:
>
> 	sudo -u gitadm git --git-dir=/srv/git.git branch -f pu master
>
> We want record information about the caller of sudo, not gitadm.

If you are using something esoteric like pseudo, isn't it too much to ask
to also use existing GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, or are there reasons why it is
not sufficient?