From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Use SUDO_UID to guess committer identity
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:05:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v63slnegm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080607071130.GZ12896@spearce.org
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> When invoking Git commands though sudo against a bare repository
> with reflogs enabled we should attempt to record the actual user's
> information in the reflog, not the identity of the user sudo entered.
>
> For example when executing:
>
> sudo -u gitadm git --git-dir=/srv/git.git branch -f pu master
>
> We want record information about the caller of sudo, not gitadm.
If you are using something esoteric like pseudo, isn't it too much to ask
to also use existing GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, or are there reasons why it is
not sufficient?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-07 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-07 7:11 [RFC PATCH] Use SUDO_UID to guess committer identity Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-07 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-06-08 0:23 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-08 0:57 ` Junio C Hamano
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