Override committer for destination commit

[Kavita Golwalkar]

Hi,

Copybara allows to override the authors.

Is there a way to override the committer as well ?

[Adrià Vilanova Martínez]

I think Copybara gets the committer info from your git config,[1] and you can use the --git-committer-email and --git-committer-name flags to override it.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/google/copybara/blob/376de57fc78ba0aeac19f05dfcc738a360a55cb6/java/com/google/copybara/git/GitDestination.java#L837-L842

[2]: https://github.com/google/copybara/blob/376de57fc78ba0aeac19f05dfcc738a360a55cb6/docs/reference.md?plain=1#L2511-L2512

[Mikel Alcon]

Yes, the right way is to use --git-committer-email and
--git-committer-name. The reason we have them as flags instead of a
config value or even more dynamic, allowed to change it per commit, is
that the committer shouldn't really change per commit. That is why git
differentiates between author and commiter:
- Author: who created the change
- committer: How was in charge of putting the change in the repo.
In this case "copybara" or the current user running the workflow is
the best choice. Internally we use it like that, in the CLI, it uses
the current user that runs the migration. In the internal service we
have, we overwrite (or let overwrite per project) using those flags,
to mark that it was done in the service.

I hope it helps.

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[Kavita Golwalkar]

Thanks . That helped.