Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- 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