On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Ramsay Jones wrote: > Unlike git-commit, git-format-patch was not picking up and using the > user.email config variable for the email part of the committer info. > I was forced to use the GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL environment variable to > override the default <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. The fix was to > simply move the call to setup_ident() to come before the git_config() > call. Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> I _always_ use environment variables, since the $HOME/.gitconfig is a pretty recent addition. Therefore, I completely missed that one. Ciao, Dscho - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html