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Joey Hess 2008-07-16 21:34:23 -04:00
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@ -63,3 +63,21 @@ no determination of uniqueness)
>>Sounds good to me, >>Sounds good to me,
>> >>
>> --[[harningt]] >> --[[harningt]]
> I think the thing to do is, as Josh suggested originally, use
> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL. Note that setting these
> individually is best, so git can independently validate/sanitize both
> (which it does do somewhat). Always put the username/openid/IP in
> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME; if the user has configured an email address,
> GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL can also be set.
>
> There is one thing yet to be solved, and that is how to tell the
> difference between a web commit by 'Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>',
> and a git commit by the same. I think we do want to differentiate these,
> and the best way to do it seems to be to add a line to the end of the
> commit message. Something like: "\n\nWeb-commit: true"
>
> For backwards compatability, the code that parses the current stuff needs
> to be left in. But it will need to take care to only parse that if the
> commit isn't flagged as a web commit! Else web committers could forge
> commits from others. --[[Joey]]