Re: [PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG.

"Stephen Sinclair" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

To rephrase, you would show AUTHOR when one of the conditions
holds true, either:

 (1) "not me" (so that we can remind that other's commit is
     being amended); _OR_

 (2) "funny me" (so that we can catch misconfiguration.

I definitely agree with (1), though having not really done much
amending of other people's commits I can't vouch for it.  I think (2)
might not be very reliable.

Yeah, I tend to agree that (2) is probably impossible to
achieve.

Author ident should be reachable e-mail address but some people
seem to prefer committer ident to be tied to the actual machine
even if that makes the ident something that merely resembles a
valid reachable e-mail address but in fact unreachable.  For
such a committer ident, taking it from hostname would be a
reasonable thing to do, but I suspect that is a minority.

Unfortunately we do not have an easy way (other than using
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment) to define different author and
committer idents.