From: Alvaro Aleman <aaleman@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:15:49 GMT
Subject: --author arg on commit only works if there is an email configured already
Message-ID: <CAOW=8D2J3t3cE32q2xNqSOPTa6gxR5gSuJUCCj5MSj58ccc3Cg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello everyone,

It seems the `--author` arg on the `git commit` command only works if
an author email is configured already somewhere:

Sample that I would expect to work and that does not work:

```
$ docker run --rm -it golang /bin/bash -c 'cd $(mktemp -d); git init;
touch test; git add test; git commit -m message --author "A U Thor
<author@example.com>"'
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/tmp.TiNqOZsw9C/.git/

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'root@aedfbe0df193.(none)')
```

When configuring any mail first, this works and uses the mail
specified in the `--author` arg:

```
$ docker run --rm -it golang /bin/bash -c 'cd $(mktemp -d); git init;
touch test; git add test; git config --local user.email
"mail@domain.com"; git commit -m message --author "A U Thor
<author@example.com>"'
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/tmp.1drhE2Rgmh/.git/
[master (root-commit) b3dad37] message
 Author: A U Thor <author@example.com>
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test
```

The git version:
$ docker run --rm -it golang  git --version
git version 2.20