From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Megacz Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display author and committer after "git commit" Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:51:51 +0000 Organization: Myself Message-ID: References: <20100106073806.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> <7v4omz17xz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vskagh9fg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vzl4lw160.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 12 02:52:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NUVvi-0002el-VN for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:52:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752520Ab0ALBwS (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:52:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751635Ab0ALBwS (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:52:18 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46334 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750934Ab0ALBwS (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:52:18 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NUVvb-0002ce-Md for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:52:15 +0100 Received: from gentzen.megacz.com ([65.23.129.159]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:52:15 +0100 Received: from adam by gentzen.megacz.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:52:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gentzen.megacz.com X-Home-Page: http://www.megacz.com/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:doT9XVBjqpWo2OuduuggiPqHNYU= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano 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