Re: Can't figure out some sense from the git-commit-tree man page

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:52:52PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > 
> > >   ?   committer name and email and the commit time.
> > >   If not provided, "git-commit-tree" uses your name, hostname and domain to
> > >   provide author and committer info. This can be overridden by either
> > >   .git/config file, or using the following environment variables.
> > >   (...)
> > > 
> > > The "If not provided" part doesn't make sense.
> > 
> > It does, if you know how to specify the committer info.  Which the man 
> > page specifies how to provide:
> > 
> > This can be overridden by either `.git/config` file, or using the 
> > following environment variables.
> > 
> >         GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
> >         GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
> >         GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
> >         GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
> >         GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
> >         GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
> >         EMAIL
> 
> This is exactly where the man page doesn't make sense to me. It tells
> you that if you don't provide committer name, etc. it uses your name,
> hostname, etc., and you can override this with .git/config or the
> environment variable you listed.
> 
> So where were you supposed to provide these informations in the first
> place ?

In /etc/passwd.  Like on every Unix system.  (Oh yeah, there is NIS and 
other things, but in effect it is the same system.)

Ciao,
Dscho