From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:38:59 GMT
Subject: Re: How to force git to use authentication as author
Message-ID: <CACBZZX4X8qRBXqwi70kZ0eZ+mb7rdD6p36xD=GoX6soha0TZcg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110714160638.065b6542@shiva.selfip.org>

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)

?