Re: [PATCH] Display author and committer after "git commit"

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Why isn't the "# Author:" and "# Committer:" information you see along
with "git status" output in the editor "git commit" gives you sufficient
if it is to avoid unconfigured/misconfigured names and e-mail
addresses?

It is sufficient!  But, as others have mentioned, it is not displayed
when "git commit -m" is used.  The patch in this thread rectifies that
omission.

Too much clutter for too little gain, except for a very first few commits
in the repository.

Funny, I think of those "+++" "-----" histogram things as clutter.  I
guess it's subjective.

  - a