Re: git-commit: allow From: line to be entered in commit message

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > If you typed that line, why somebody else's change ended up in
> > your working tree is a mystery to me, but let's say an
> > office-mate edited things for you and said "this should work.
> > test it out and if it is OK commit it for me."  I have seen this
> > kind of thing done in real life.
> > 
> This happens from time to time where I work, but I think it would be 
> more useful to have
> 
> 	--from="Some User <some.user@theoffice.org>"
> 
> which would save even more typing.
> 
> I had thought of coupling this with some translation-scheme thingie, so 
> that "--from=jd" would be automagically converted to the proper name and 
> email address. I first came to think about this when I imported most of 
> our projects from CVS, but I ended up doing a quick-hack to 
> git-cvsimport instead.