Re: Does git store machine specific information

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
>
> In short, no.
>
> In longer, there's data in there that could be used for steganographic
> purposes. If you don't setup your GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL properly, perhaps
> your machine(s) hostname(s) will be in the commit message. Whatever
> timezone your machines are set to will influence the date field(s) in
> commits.
>
> If you are worried, take a look at raw objects in your repository to
> see what is recorded:
>
>         git show --format=raw <some-git-object e.g. HEAD>
>

Thanks for both the short and longer versions of the answer, Jonathan.
They are both helpful.

raju
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