# http-backend GIT_COMMITTER_NAME & -EMAIL documentation bug

1 messages from 2012-11-10 to 2012-11-10. Participants: gima@iki.fi.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/32058

## gima@iki.fi, 2012-11-10 15:26

Subject: http-backend GIT_COMMITTER_NAME & -EMAIL documentation bug
Message-ID: <509E721B.8070700@iki.fi>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/509E721B.8070700%40iki.fi

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Documentation says that envvars GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and 
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL formed from REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but doesn't 
mention that they are left alone if they have been set already.
Referring to: 
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt#L178

Source code says that they are set conditionally (referring to this part 
of the source):
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/http-backend.c#L335

And the (most recent) commit pertaining to this behavior explains the 
change:
https://github.com/git/git/commit/e32a4581bcbf1cf43cd5069a0d19df07542d612a

I'm also for the possibility of custom implementations assigning those 
envvars, so could the documentation be changed to reflect that?

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