Re: Git snafu

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> It might be viable to compare the committer against the ACLs for
>> emacs.git or such.  The authors can vary widely, but the committer
>> should usually be somebody that can write to the repository.

> But the committer's name, as recorded in the Git logs, is really of no
> special interest to us.  Only the author's name and email address are
> of interest.  The access rights to the Git repository are checked by
> Savannah, and if the commit was successfully pushed, that check
> succeeded, regardless of what's in the log.

But you'd catch errors due to bad configuration (as the one in question)
where both author and committer tend to be wrong.