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From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GPG signing for git commit?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:36:40 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2009-04-17, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> If you set GIT_COMMITTER_*, won't it change the SHA of the
>> commit itself?  I always thought so...
>
> No. Pushing will never create a new commit, so there are no new SHA-1s
> calculated. But the reflog entry will contain GIT_COMMITTER_*, and is a
> simple text file.

cool -- I didn't know this.  Thanks!

One last question: where do you set it, in the pre-commit
hook on the server?