Re: Wishlist: Please add --author to git-tag

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 31, 2008, 23:48 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801312345520.23907@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1b46aba20801311449l774a6213kc33c49c0682c0228@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Carlos Rica wrote:

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> On Jan 31, 2008 8:35 PM, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:27:31PM +0000, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> >
> > > git commit supports --author to overwrite the author information on 
> > > a particular commit; it would be nice if git tag would offer the 
> > > same.
> >
> >   Meanwhile,
> >
> >   GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="John Doe" GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=luser@example.com git tag
> 
> That didn't work for me,

Hey jasam, good to see you again.

I think that you have to use "-s" or "-a" for the author information to take effect (IOW a lightweight tag will not pick it up, since it is only a 41-byte file, and does not change the object database).

Ciao, Dscho