On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Mike.lifeguard <mike.lifeguard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In any case, is the answer "git can't do that" or not? Because that's > actually the answer I'm interested in. Git uses the author/committer info for diferent things. First, it is a unique identifier (name+email); second it is used when dealing with mails (in and out mails). If you don´t use email (for review, or contributions) you can build the identifier as you want without the need to be name and email, it is up to the project. For my private projects I use name=Santi email=santi, so the author/committer info is "Santi <santi>" and I haven´t found problems. Note that I don´t send/reveive emails to contribute, just fetch and push. Maybe it would be better to use a user.email that resemble an email, with @ and such. HTH, Santi -- 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