On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 4:35 PM Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a repo downloaded on machines which do automatic tests. > Sometimes I want to make a quick fix there and push back to origin. > Reading git-commit docs I had impression that I can use "--author=me" > and it will work. But it requires setting global user name and email: You can still do git -c user.name=me -c user.email=me@xxxxxxxxxxx commit ... if you do not want to follow the advice message to store the ident permanently. > git config --global user.email "you@xxxxxxxxxxx" > git config --global user.name "Your Name" Technically, what you are missing when you give --author is only the committer ident, so you can probably use GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=me GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=me@xxxxxxxxxxx \ git commit --author=me ... even though it is not any shorter ;-). I think all of the above is quite expected. The fact that --author is used to specify the ident of the author is a good sign that it is different from the committer ident (otherwise the user would be using a configured default ident that is always used as the committer ident, without overriding it with the --author) option.
