From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:56:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow config file to specify Signed-off-by identity in format-patch.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608050055090.1800@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <000001c6b809$2919a200$c47eedc1@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>



On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Ramsay Jones wrote:

> 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