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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
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