On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> git --no-pager show tag-name-1 | grep ^Author > > A tag doesn't have an author, it has a tagger. This shows the author of > the *commit*. I got the grep wrong, I meant that I expected the tagger to be set according to GIT_AUTHOR_{NAME,EMAIL}, but it isn't either: $ sh /tmp/test-tag.sh Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test-git/.git/ [master (root-commit) f83fc11] README: testing content 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 README Author: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> [master ef65731] README: testing content again 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Author: Test User <test@xxxxxxxxxxx> Tagger: Test User <test@xxxxxxxxxxx> Author: Test User <test@xxxxxxxxxxx> Tagger: Test User <test@xxxxxxxxxxx> Author: Test User <test@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Tag Test User" >> GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="tagtest@xxxxxxxxxxx" git tag -a -m"another annotated >> tag" tag-name-2 > > The tagger is controlled by the committer info. I don't get what you mean, what committer info? -- 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