Re: [PATCH] wt-status: show author info if status.showauthor is set
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> writes:
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>> Personally I think it's just clutter, but hey, it's off by default. Of
>> course what is the chance that you've turned on status.showauthor in
>> your ~/.gitconfig, but you don't have your identity set up properly? :)
>
> The point is that *someone else* can have showauthor set up in .gitconfig,
> and then he'll be able to use git commit --amend to fix up
> the identity without using --author explicitly.
For that you would need to update git-commit, I think.
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>