Hi All, My plan is to use git to keep track of changes in /etc but when committing I want to have the person making the change specify themselves as author by adding the --author option on the commandline. So I would like to stop accidental commits as root. I tried creating this pre-commit hook but it is not working - git var is still returning root even if I specify the author on commit line. TIA Adrian AUTHOR=`git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT | sed -n 's/^\(.*>\).*$/\1/p'` if [ "$AUTHOR" == "root <root@localhost>" ]; then echo "Please commit under your own user name instead of \"$AUTHOR\":" echo 'git commit --author="Adrian"' echo "or if your name is not already in logs use full ident" echo 'git commit --author="Adrian Cornish <a@localhost>"' exit 1 fi exit 0 -- 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