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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: edit Author/Date metadata as part of 'git commit' $EDITOR 
	invocation?
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:32:19 -0500
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Heya,

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 18:32, Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com> wrote:
> =A0 =A0 I've been having problems lately with running git on machines=
 where
> =A0 =A0 I forgot to set up my .gitconfig; I wind up with patches that=
 have
> =A0 =A0 committers like root@mymachine and so forth. =A0Being automat=
ically
> =A0 =A0 shown the committer/author when I make the commit would help =
me
> =A0 =A0 avoid these situations.

At the very least it should be easy to include these fields as
comments in the message template. But of course you would still be
bitten if you used "git commit -m" :(.

--=20
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier