Re: [PATCH] Display author and committer after "git commit"

From: Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2010, 01:51 UTC
Message-ID: <xuu2zl4kks3s.fsf@nowhere.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzl4lw160.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Why isn't the "# Author:" and "# Committer:" information you see along
> with "git status" output in the editor "git commit" gives you sufficient
> if it is to avoid unconfigured/misconfigured names and e-mail
> addresses?

It is sufficient! But, as others have mentioned, it is not displayed when "git commit -m" is used. The patch in this thread rectifies that omission.

> Too much clutter for too little gain, except for a very first few commits
> in the repository.

Funny, I think of those "+++" "-----" histogram things as clutter. I guess it's subjective.

- a

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