Commit Without Setting User Name and Email

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(This occurred to me after suggesting the long version with the environment variables—git commit wants to set both an author and a committer, and --author only overrides the former.)

All git commands take -c arguments before the action verb to set temporary configuration data, so that’s the perfect place for this:

git -c user.name="Paul Draper" -c user.email="[email protected]" commit -m '...'

So in this case -c is part of the git command, not the commit subcommand.

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