From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephan Beyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] Keep committer and committer dates Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 03:03:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20080605010330.GB24466@leksak.fem-net> References: <20080604102906.GA2126@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jaroslav Kysela , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 05 03:04:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K43u9-0006hl-GW for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:04:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752972AbYFEBDh (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:03:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752845AbYFEBDh (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:03:37 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:56279 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752788AbYFEBDg (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:03:36 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Jun 2008 01:03:34 -0000 Received: from q137.fem.tu-ilmenau.de (EHLO leksak.fem-net) [141.24.46.137] by mail.gmx.net (mp023) with SMTP; 05 Jun 2008 03:03:34 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1499303 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/OaRUV/Q7OEeAARK/DjDce/rI4FZTWvjavj9VpG2 rH+Dy3s6eRkR3A Received: from sbeyer by leksak.fem-net with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K43t4-0006qP-91; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:03:30 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, > - as has been pointed out several times now, you _are_ the committer, and > you seem to want to lie there. Lying is already possible with GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME,EMAIL,NAME} environment variables. Of course, this is only used for testing purposes and to interact with other SCMs. And I don't think there are more use cases, but perhaps I am (or we all are) missing some fact ;-) Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Beyer , PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F