Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... at the point pre-commit is run git has not > overriden GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT with your --author value, yet. I don't > know if that is a bug or not. The prepare-commit-msg hook is the same > way. I'd call it a bug, as the command line --author should have the same effect as GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and friends observable by the outside world. There are two slightly different approaches to solve this, that share the first two preparatory commits. I'll send out the preparatory ones first and then show both of these approaches. -- 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