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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Fix typo in tutorial-2.txt
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 16:58:29 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> But don't commit SHA1's, e.g., depend on times, authors, etc., that we
> can't count on being the same?

You can set all these by hand with the

	GIT_{AUTHOR,COMMITTER}_{NAME,EMAIL,DATE}

variables. In fact, the test script library already does that for authors 
(although not for dates, I think) to get consistent answers.

			Linus