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Re: Should GIT_AUTHOR_{NAME,EMAIL} set the tagger name/email?

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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Sep 11, 2012, 14:56 UTC
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On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
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>> I don't get what you mean, what committer info?
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> GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME,EMAIL}.  A tagger isn't really an author.

Ah, am I the only one that finds that a bit counterintuitive to the point of wanting to submit a patch to change it?

If you've created a tag you're the *author* of that tag, the author/committer distinction for commit objects is there for e.g. rebases and applying commits via e.g. git-am.

We don't have a similar facility for tags (you have to push them around directly), but we *could* and in that case having a Tag-Committer as well well as a Tagger would make sense.

Junio, what do you think?
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  1. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 1, 2012
  2. Andreas SchwabSep 1, 2012
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 1, 2012
  4. Andreas SchwabSep 1, 2012
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 11, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2012
  7. demerphqSep 11, 2012

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