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J=F6rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> writes:

> And now I have some questions:
> 1. Why didn't the environment variables work?
> 2. Why is there a check for commit information when I pull from some
> tree?

Because "pull" means "fetch and merge the local modifications if
any".  When you merge (and you _did_ merge), you create a new
commit of your own, and the commit records who committed it.

You need GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL.

Now, the normal "git log" does not verbosely show committer and
author,