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Re: Pseudonymous commits

From
SBSanti Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date
Mar 25, 2010, 11:05 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Mike.lifeguard <mike.lifeguard@gmail.com> wrote:

> In any case, is the answer "git can't do that" or not? Because that's
> actually the answer I'm interested in.

Git uses the author/committer info for diferent things. First, it is a unique identifier (name+email); second it is used when dealing with mails (in and out mails).

If you don´t use email (for review, or contributions) you can build the identifier as you want without the need to be name and email, it is up to the project. For my private projects I use name=Santi email=santi, so the author/committer info is "Santi <santi>" and I haven´t found problems. Note that I don´t send/reveive emails to contribute, just fetch and push. Maybe it would be better to use a user.email that resemble an email, with @ and such.

HTH, Santi

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  1. Mike.lifeguardMar 25, 2010
  2. Theodore TsoMar 25, 2010
  3. Mike.lifeguardMar 25, 2010
  4. Kris ShannonMar 25, 2010
  5. Mike.lifeguardMar 25, 2010
  6. Avery PennarunMar 25, 2010
  7. Alex RiesenMar 25, 2010
  8. Santi BéjarMar 25, 2010
  9. Nicolas PitreMar 25, 2010
  10. Mike.lifeguardMar 25, 2010
  11. Nicolas PitreMar 25, 2010
  12. Chris PackhamMar 25, 2010
  13. Jakub NarebskiMar 25, 2010

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