From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:58:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git-commit does not signoff using name supplied by --author
Message-ID: <7vhc7ag4fk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <0f761673-f0ec-4689-b1f1-8019d4540b0c@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com>

bain <bain@devslashzero.com> writes:

>> If i use git-commit --author "A U Thor <author.example.net>" -s it
>> still uses my global author.name and author.email to add signoff
>> message.
>>
>> Is this expected behavior?
>
> Never mind...
>
> Looking at the code i found out commiter name/email is used to
> signoff, which is correct and can be different than author.

Actually we _do mind_.  The users should not have to look at the code to
find this out.

Send in a patch to clarify this in the documentation if it is not already
done, please.