On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 12:26:52PM +0100, Wols Lists wrote: > On 20/04/13 22:42, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> Both of these methods allow to use git "natively" to apply the patch, >> and (assuming your git is setup properly) to automatically get your >> suggested commit message and the information of authorship recorded >> into git. For example, now I don't know whether the git authorship >> email should be wolslists at youngmanorg.uk (like the wiki >> Developers page says), antlists at youngman.org.uk (the address >> that sent this mail) or the more personal address you used to >> correspond with me by email in the past. Please advise. I'm also >> not sure whether you'd like the authorship name to be "Anthony >> W. Youngman" or "Anthony Youngman". > I missed this bit in my earlier reply(s). Email address doesn't really > matter, although "anthony" is probably best. The antlists address is > really for mailing lists. Authorship - I'm happier with the long form - > "Anthony W. Youngman" - the wol and the W are related (although they > don't quite stand for each other :-) OK, then do: git config --global user.name "Anthony W. Youngman" git config --global user.email anth...@youngman.org.uk In this way your own git will put that information in your own commits, which will be transferred with the "git push" (in the gerrit case) or with the "git format-patch" (in the "send patch to mailing list" case). (And neither you, nor anybody else will have to think about these questions ever again, :) at least until you change computers or something like that.) -- Lionel _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
