Hello, Indeed the use case proposed by Junio C. Hamano is more realistic than mine. I also included a minor clarification of how identity environment variables are used to cover the edge case raised by Jeff King. As far as the need to export those variables goes, I saw the wrong behavior on Solaris. -- Tadeusz Andrzej Kadłubowski -- 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