Re: edit Author/Date metadata as part of 'git commit' $EDITOR invocation?

From: Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com>
Date: Jan 4, 2010, 21:08 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1001041232h4e5827d1pb5c648b33ecfb5ce@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 18:32, Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com> wrote:
>>     I've been having problems lately with running git on machines where
>>     I forgot to set up my .gitconfig; I wind up with patches that have
>>     committers like root@mymachine and so forth.  Being automatically
>>     shown the committer/author when I make the commit would help me
>>     avoid these situations.
>
> At the very least it should be easy to include these fields as
> comments in the message template.

That would be great.

> But of course you would still be bitten if you used "git commit -m"
> :(.

Perhaps a preference (off by default) demanding that they be set explicitly when "git commit -m" is used?

Some people care more than others about the metadata; this is for the folks to whom it matters a lot.

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