Re: edit Author/Date metadata as part of 'git commit' $EDITOR invocation?

Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] writes:

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 18:32, Adam Megacz [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

    I've been having problems lately with running git on machines where
    I forgot to set up my .gitconfig; I wind up with patches that have
    committers like root@mymachine and so forth.  Being automatically
    shown the committer/author when I make the commit would help me
    avoid these situations.

At the very least it should be easy to include these fields as
comments in the message template.

That would be great.

But of course you would still be bitten if you used "git commit -m"
:(.

Perhaps a preference (off by default) demanding that they be set
explicitly when "git commit -m" is used?

Some people care more than others about the metadata; this is for the
folks to whom it matters a lot.

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