Discovered a nice little git trick today. I haven’t seen this documented, so I’m not sure if it’s a feature per se, but if you set your user.name via git config like so:
[user]
name = accountname
email = email@company.com
and then commit with the --author="Full Name"
flag set to another name, this will set git’s commit metadata such that “Author:” is “Full Name” and “Committer:” is “accountname”.
Useful when you want to see the Author in your git logs and the Committer in tools like Hudson or Jenkins.