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[PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG.

From
SSStephen Sinclair <radarsat1@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 11, 2008, 20:10 UTC
Message-ID
<9b3e2dc20801111210n7bd7a71cw437819aa6253ae85@mail.gmail.com>
Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1@gmail.com>
---
 builtin-commit.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c
index 73f1e35..4fd9367 100644
--- a/builtin-commit.c
+++ b/builtin-commit.c
@@ -423,8 +423,18 @@ static int prepare_log_message(const char
*index_file, const char *prefix)
 			"#\n",
 			git_path("MERGE_HEAD"));

+    fprintf(fp, "\n");
+
+    fprintf(fp,
+            "# Committer: %s\n"
+            "# Author:    %s\n"
+            "#\n",
+            fmt_name(getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"),
+                     getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL")),
+            fmt_name(getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_NAME"),
+                     getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL")));
+
 	fprintf(fp,
-		"\n"
 		"# Please enter the commit message for your changes.\n"
 		"# (Comment lines starting with '#' will ");
 	if (cleanup_mode == CLEANUP_ALL)
-- 
1.5.4.rc2.85.ga7943-dirty
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