From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: git-commit: allow From: line to be entered in commit message Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:12:31 -0800 Message-ID: <20060113191231.GM14196@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <20060112093700.1d3d25db.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <20060112190031.GH14196@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <7vhd89mc0y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060113065855.GJ14196@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <7vpsmwbo9s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 13 20:12:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExULo-0001VC-HM for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:12:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422819AbWAMTMh (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:12:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422834AbWAMTMh (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:12:37 -0500 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.122.30]:33416 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422819AbWAMTMh (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:12:37 -0500 Received: from rgmsgw02.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw02.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.52]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id k0DJCW5R009065; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:12:32 -0700 Received: from rgmsgw02.us.oracle.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw02.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k0DJCVjx013514; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:12:31 -0700 Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com (ca-server1.us.oracle.com [139.185.48.5]) by rgmsgw02.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k0DJCUi9013489 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:12:31 -0700 Received: from jlbec by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ExULf-0002Eu-Kz; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:12:31 -0800 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vpsmwbo9s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:06:07PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Joel Becker writes: > > > Well, I'm wary of putting > > GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=joel.becker@oracle.com as a permanent part of my > > environment, for fear of overriding some other authors at some point. > > The weakest default comes from .git/config so you could have > this in your .git/config: > > [user] > name = Joel Becker > email = Joel.Becker@oracle.com This configuration is something I have the opportunity to forget every time I call git-clone. So I still need to leave it in the environment permanently. Am I correct in assuming that "From:" lines will override the environment when using git-applymbox? If so, I guess leaving GIT_AUTHOR_* in my environment permanently will be ok. Joel -- "War doesn't determine who's right; war determines who's left." Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127