git <author> settings from logs

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Wed, 11 May 2011, Quentin Neill wrote:
> I'm using git with
> remote.origin.url=http://sources.redhat.com/git/binutils.git and I
> notice my commits in the log do not have an email address in the
> <author> value.
>
> Is that a gitcvs thing, a setting on sourceware.org, or a local git setting?

AFAIK, a local git setting.
See e.g. <http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit#developer-setup>.

brgds, H-P
PS. more-or-less a git newbie too, so don't ask me anything, STFW instead.