Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] config: allow giving separate author and committer idents
From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
Date: 2019-02-05 09:17:03
Hi William, On Mon, 4 Feb 2019, William Hubbs wrote:
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diff --git a/Documentation/config/user.txt b/Documentation/config/user.txt index b5b2ba1199..0557cbbceb 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/user.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/user.txt@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@ -user.email:: - Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits. - Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`, and - `EMAIL` environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]. - user.name:: - Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits. - Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME` and `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME` - environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]. +user.email:: +author.name:: +author.email:: +committer.name:: +committer.email:: + The `user.name` and `user.email` variables determine what ends + up in the `author` and `committer` field of commit + objects. + If you need the `author` or `committer` to be different, the + `author.name`, `author.email`, `committer.name` or + `committer.email` variables can be set. + Also, all of these can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`, + `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`, + `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL` and `EMAIL` environment variables. + See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for more information.
Thank you, this looks good to me. Ciao, Johannes