From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:58:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
Message-ID: <7vpqqqbfgr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110216230250.GF2615@elie>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Wait, does this mean that -c/-C/--amend/CHERRY_PICK_HEAD overrides
> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, and GIT_AUTHOR_DATE?
>
> *checks*
>
> Yes, it does.  The behavior is carried over from v0.99~185
> (git-commit-script: get commit message from an existing one,
> 2005-06-25), but imho it is wrong.

Hmph, -c/-C/--amend is like giving the identity with --author from the
command line so overriding the values from the environment variables
sounds like the right thing to do.

Where am I confused?