commit_tree(): add a new author parameter

In case it's NULL, it is still determined automatically, but now you
have the ability to specify one yourself.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/builtin.h b/builtin.h
index e67cb2090e..8893b3ca59 100644
--- a/builtin.h
+++ b/builtin.h
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ extern int read_line_with_nul(char *buf, int size, FILE *file);
 extern int fmt_merge_msg(int merge_summary, struct strbuf *in,
 	struct strbuf *out);
 extern int commit_tree(const char *msg, unsigned char *tree,
-		struct commit_list *parents, unsigned char *ret);
+		struct commit_list *parents, unsigned char *ret,
+		const char *author);
 extern int check_pager_config(const char *cmd);
 
 extern int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);