On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:38:59 +0200 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:36, J. Bakshi <joydeep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > How can I force git to use the username as define at /home/git/PASSWD as the author name for git commit ? > > Edit the global bashrc to have: > > export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$(cat ~/PASSWD) > > ? Thanks. [1] will it work with file generated by htpasswd ? as that file is actually created by same (/home/git/PASSWD) [2] And the commit is over http, So is it effective to set the value by .bashrc ? -- 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