From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 02:41:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ensure author information is set before asking for commit message. Message-ID: <7vlkt5s4yw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Sean writes: > It's better to find out you need to set your author information > properly before you enter a long commit message. > > Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks Makes sense but I suspect you would want COMMITTER not AUTHOR. Imagine you pulled from somewhere else and it conflicted, requiring you to hand resolve and then run git-commit.