On 29/11/06, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:29 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > Your patch uses the author of the patch which can be different from > > the person sending the e-mail. It could indeed use the author from GIT > > variables or configuration (not the patch author) and I already have a > > patch from Karl Hasselström for this (which I haven't found the time > > to check properly). > > The funny thing it, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL are only used > in the code to determine the author of the patch. Yes, but only for a newly created patch. If you import a patch from an mbox or e-mail or simply pass the --author option to "new", the author will be different. -- Catalin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Nov 30 19:32:18 2006
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : 2006-11-30 19:36:05 EST