Subject: Re: Should GIT_AUTHOR_{NAME,EMAIL} set the tagger name/email?

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:57:21 +0200

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]> writes:

>     git --no-pager show tag-name-1 | grep ^Author

A tag doesn't have an author, it has a tagger.  This shows the author of
the *commit*.

>     GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Tag Test User"
> GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email-masked]" git tag -a -m"another annotated
> tag" tag-name-2

The tagger is controlled by the committer info.

Andreas.

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