From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:17:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Ask git for author and committer name
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0612050117i3293f999m3ebf3278aacb8ce4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061205091017.GB25002@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On 05/12/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> On 2006-12-04 22:24:52 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > I haven't forgot about this patch. I switched StGIT to the gitconfig
> > files and there won't be a need to invoke "git repo-config". I'll
> > try to modify your patch.
>
> Ah, nice. But will you still honor the git author and committer
> environment variables that way?

Yes. My understanding is that the environment variables would override
the config options. I would also keep the [stgit] user information for
backward compatibility (there are people who use StGIT exclusively and
don't want to dig into GIT configs).

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