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Re: git-shortlog script

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jun 5, 2005, 00:16 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0506041715170.1876@ppc970.osdl.org>
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On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> I'm surprised git doesn't fall back to GIT_COMMITTER_NAME if 
> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME doesn't exist, though.
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME existed first ;)

Btw, what does your /etc/passwd look like, and I'll try to hack it up to just get that case right by default too..

		Linus
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