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Re: [PATCH] Allow config file to specify Signed-off-by identity in format-patch.

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 4, 2006, 22:56 UTC
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On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Ramsay Jones wrote:
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> Unlike git-commit, git-format-patch was not picking up and using the
> user.email config variable for the email part of the committer info.
> I was forced to use the GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment variable to
> override the default <user@localhost.localdomain>. The fix was to
> simply move the call to setup_ident() to come before the git_config()
> call.
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

I _always_ use environment variables, since the $HOME/.gitconfig is a pretty recent addition. Therefore, I completely missed that one.

Ciao, Dscho

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