From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:52:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wt-status: show author info if status.showauthor is set
Message-ID: <7vtzvw7hsu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070404064917.GE31984@mellanox.co.il>

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> writes:

>> 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.