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Re: How to force git to use authentication as author

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 14, 2011, 10:38 UTC
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:36, J. Bakshi <joydeep@infoservices.in> wrote:
> How can I force git to use the username as define at /home/git/PASSWD as the author name for git commit ?
Edit the global bashrc to have:
    export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$(cat ~/PASSWD)
?
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