From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:25:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806050523120.21190@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080605010330.GB24466@leksak.fem-net>

Hi,

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:

> > - as has been pointed out several times now, you _are_ the committer, 
> >   and you seem to want to lie there.
> 
> Lying is already possible with GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME,EMAIL,NAME} 
> environment variables.

Of course it is possible!  I even pointed to a method!

The _point_ was that we do not want to recommend it.  And giving prominent 
support for it, such as introducing a command line parameter, _would_ 
have the effect of recommending it.

Ciao,
Dscho