Re: [PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG.

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Stephen Sinclair" <radarsat1@gmail.com> writes:

>> To rephrase, you would show AUTHOR when one of the conditions
>> holds true, either:
>>
>>  (1) "not me" (so that we can remind that other's commit is
>>      being amended); _OR_
>>
>>  (2) "funny me" (so that we can catch misconfiguration.
>
> I definitely agree with (1), though having not really done much
> amending of other people's commits I can't vouch for it.  I think (2)
> might not be very reliable.

Yeah, I tend to agree that (2) is probably impossible to
achieve.

Author ident should be reachable e-mail address but some people
seem to prefer committer ident to be tied to the actual machine
even if that makes the ident something that merely resembles a
valid reachable e-mail address but in fact unreachable.  For
such a committer ident, taking it from hostname would be a
reasonable thing to do, but I suspect that is a minority.

Unfortunately we do not have an easy way (other than using
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment) to define different author and
committer idents.