Hi, On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > - set_author_env=`git show -s --pretty=raw --encoding="$encoding" "$use_commit" | > > - LANG=C LC_ALL=C sed -ne "$pick_author_script"` > > - eval "$set_author_env" > > ... > > + eval $(get_author_ident_from_commit "$use_commit") > > Are you sure about this part of the change? No, I am not. > I suspect that you are losing IFS by not dq'ing the argument you give to > the eval. That is well possible. Quoting in shell is such a hassle, and I never seem to get it right. Therefore I did a minimal test, namely committing with another GIT_AUTHOR_NAME (which has spaces in it), and then commiting again, with "-c HEAD". Which did what I expected: the second commit had the same author name as the first one. So I thought that it was okay. Ciao, Dscho - 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