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Cc: Kris Shannon <kris@shannon.id.au>, git@vger.kernel.org
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Mike.lifeguard
<mike.lifeguard@gmail.com> wrote:
> In any case, is the answer "git can't do that" or not? Because that's
> actually the answer I'm interested in.

Git uses the author/committer info for diferent things. First, it is a
unique identifier (name+email); second it is used when dealing with
mails (in and out mails).

If you don=B4t use email (for review, or contributions) you can build
the identifier as you want without the need to be name and email, it
is up to the project. For my private projects I use name=3DSanti
email=3Dsanti, so the author/committer info is "Santi <santi>" and I
haven=B4t found problems. Note that I don=B4t send/reveive emails to
contribute, just fetch and push. Maybe it would be better to use a
user.email that resemble an email, with @ and such.

HTH,
Santi