Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:02:13AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

quoted text
> - Maybe put Author: (or From:? and maybe Subject:?) line in the pre-formatted
>   commit message, and let the user edit them?

Personally I think it's just clutter, but hey, it's off by default. Of
course what is the chance that you've turned on status.showauthor in
your ~/.gitconfig, but you don't have your identity set up properly? :)

Junio, this is somewhat tongue in cheek, but if people like it, please
take it.

 Documentation/config.txt |    5 +++++
 wt-status.c              |   10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index cf1e040..189e703 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -537,6 +537,11 @@ showbranch.default::
 	The default set of branches for gitlink:git-show-branch[1].
 	See gitlink:git-show-branch[1].
 
+status.showauthor::
+	If set to true, the output of git-status and the template used
+	for git-commit will show the author's name and email address.
+	Defaults to false.
+
 tar.umask::
 	By default, gitlink:git-tar-tree[1] sets file and directories modes
 	to 0666 or 0777. While this is both useful and acceptable for projects
diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index a055990..3c3510c 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include "revision.h"
 #include "diffcore.h"
 
+int wt_status_show_author = 0;
 int wt_status_use_color = 0;
 static char wt_status_colors[][COLOR_MAXLEN] = {
 	"",         /* WT_STATUS_HEADER: normal */
@@ -317,6 +318,11 @@ void wt_status_print(struct wt_status *s)
 			"# %s%s", on_what, branch_name);
 	}
 
+	if (wt_status_show_author)
+		color_printf_ln(color(WT_STATUS_HEADER),
+				"# author: %s",
+				git_author_info(0));
+
 	if (s->is_initial) {
 		color_printf_ln(color(WT_STATUS_HEADER), "#");
 		color_printf_ln(color(WT_STATUS_HEADER), "# Initial commit");
@@ -356,5 +362,9 @@ int git_status_config(const char *k, const char *v)
 		int slot = parse_status_slot(k, 13);
 		color_parse(v, k, wt_status_colors[slot]);
 	}
+	if (!strcmp(k, "status.showauthor")) {
+		wt_status_show_author = 1;
+		return 0;
+	}
 	return git_default_config(k, v);
 }
-- 
1.5.1.rc3.671.gd125-dirty

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