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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Alvaro Aleman <aaleman@redhat.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: --author arg on commit only works if there is an email configured already
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:28:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft8fvoow.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOW=8D2J3t3cE32q2xNqSOPTa6gxR5gSuJUCCj5MSj58ccc3Cg@mail.gmail.com> (Alvaro Aleman's message of "Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:15:49 -0400")

On Aug 21 2020, Alvaro Aleman wrote:

> It seems the `--author` arg on the `git commit` command only works if
> an author email is configured already somewhere:

The `--author' argument only sets the author, but git still need to fill
in the committer.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-21 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-21 16:15 --author arg on commit only works if there is an email configured already Alvaro Aleman
2020-08-21 18:28 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2020-08-21 18:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-21 19:55     ` Alvaro Aleman
2020-08-21 20:36       ` [PATCH] ident: say whose identity is missing when giving user.name hint Junio C Hamano
2020-08-21 20:52         ` Eric Sunshine
2020-08-21 21:13           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-21 21:31             ` Alvaro Aleman
2020-08-21 21:37               ` Eric Sunshine
2020-08-21 22:35                 ` Junio C Hamano

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