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Originally Posted by AcidWeb

Well bare GIT allow to set commit author with --author "New Author Name <email@address.com> but I doubt that GitHub will accept commit from user that is not connected with any GitHub account.

Also: GIT. At last.

This should work just fine.

And GitHub does not restrict all users from accepting commits made by non-GitHub users.
It simply will not have a clickable link to the GitHub user on the commit reference.
And GitHub identifies users based on their email address.
See this recent calibre commit for an example of an unidentified author: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...97696d39a7a0f2
chaley did this, (Charles Haley <cbhaley@i.wont.say.com>) but his fake email address isn't listed as his on his account, so it's an unknown user.

Originally Posted by KevinH

Hi,

One quick question if there are any git experts our there. I understand how to set the historic date and include the historic commit messages and even provide the authors in the commit message itself, but for some reason git will not allow me to actually set the commit author to anyone who does not have his/her own git account username and password.

Is there some way to override the setting of author that gets into the commit history?

If not, I will just clearly add the authors information to the commit message so that the proper author gets credit.

Thanks,

KevinH

git or GitHub? how are you doing it?

You need to specify both a name and email. But the email can be left blank, by specifying

--author "FN LN <(someone@email.address has been OMITTED)>"
aka
--author "FN LN <>"

Originally Posted by KevinH

Feedback welcome. I now have to figure out how to give other current contributors: (ie. pdurrant, DiapDealer, and tkeo) direct access to the repository. If anyone knows how to do this please let me know.

https://help.github.com/articles/add...al-repository/