On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:00:02 +0200 Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 16:18 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > > 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) > > Not directly, if it only has one line, then $(cat ~/PASSWD | cut -d ':' > -f 1) should work, but I haven't tested it. > > > > > [2] And the commit is over http, So is it effective to set the value > > by .bashrc ? > > You are misunderstanding either how git works or the nomenclature. The > commits all happen locally and need no authentication whatsoever (and > usually you're expected to use a real name and email address). When you > need to authenticate is when yuou push your changes somewhere (a central > repo, for example). This is where the ~/.netrc file comes into play, as > I mentioned in the reply to your other mail. > Exactly, when we need to push we are asked about authentication. I like to configure the central git server in a way so that the user-name as in authentication, be set as author name by the git server itself. actually it is how I configured svn server over http. So comparing to that I am trying to achieve the same. Say your user-name is there at htpasswd file as Carlos, so when you authenticate by Carlos to push , the author-name will automatically become as Carlos. No way to customize that with specific username. That's the idea. Thanks -- 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