From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:28:15 GMT
Subject: Re: --author arg on commit only works if there is an email configured already
Message-ID: <87ft8fvoow.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CAOW=8D2J3t3cE32q2xNqSOPTa6gxR5gSuJUCCj5MSj58ccc3Cg@mail.gmail.com>

On Aug 21 2020, Alvaro Aleman wrote:

> It seems the `--author` arg on the `git commit` command only works if
> an author email is configured already somewhere:

The `--author' argument only sets the author, but git still need to fill
in the committer.

Andreas.

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