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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT_COMMITTER_* and reflog
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 19:20:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191026022039.GE39574@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201910252149.23787.luke@dashjr.org>

Hi Luke,

Luke Dashjr wrote:

> It appears the reflog currently allows its log data (name and date) to be
> overridden by the GIT_COMMITTER_* environment variables. At least for my
> workflow, this kinda breaks the reflog (as I regularly set GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
> to produce deterministic commit objects).

Can you say more about this?  What is the workflow this is part of?  Can
you describe a sequence of steps and how you are affected during those
steps?

> Is there a need to support this override for the reflog?

Yes.

> Is there any reason it can't be changed to use GIT_REFLOG_* instead?

Would a new GIT_REFLOG_* set of envvars that overrides GIT_COMMITTER_*
work for you?  If I understand correctly, you could set
GIT_REFLOG_NAME and GIT_REFLOG_EMAIL to an appropriate identity, but
you wouldn't have a good value to put in GIT_REFLOG_DATE.

If GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME,EMAIL} were used when writing reflogs but
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE weren't, would that help with your workflow?

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-26  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-25 21:49 GIT_COMMITTER_* and reflog Luke Dashjr
2019-10-26  2:20 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2019-10-26  2:43   ` Luke Dashjr
2019-11-07 13:57     ` Philip Oakley
2019-10-26  7:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-26 17:37     ` Jeff King
2019-10-27 12:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-29 14:05         ` Phillip Wood
2019-10-29 14:34         ` Jeff King

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