From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:43:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git-commit: allow From: line to be entered in commit message
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP0804299A4D3C5C1973FF6CAE260@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <43C6CFC5.5010902@op5.se>

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:53:09 +0100
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, this might be the way to go; however if you are cutting and pasting
the commit message already, this might be slightly less convenient because
now you have to copy-n-paste to the command line instead of just to your
commit editor.   Hopefully it would help to avoid the need for others
to hack the scripts ;o)   Also it would be nice if it could help simplify
the git-am script as Junio suggested too.

Sean