Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 18:32, Adam Megacz <adam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. - a -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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