From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:06:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git-commit: allow From: line to be entered in commit message
Message-ID: <7vpsmwbo9s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060113065855.GJ14196@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>

Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> writes:

> Well, I'm wary of putting
> GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=joel.becker@oracle.com as a permanent part of my
> environment, for fear of overriding some other authors at some point.

The weakest default comes from .git/config so you could have
this in your .git/config:

	[user]
        	name = Joel Becker 
                email = Joel.Becker@oracle.com

and you can have GIT_AUTHOR_* override it as necessary.