About some git repositories

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, pcpa at mandriva.com.br wrote:

>   About repository xf86-video-ast, commit
> 486380cd85cdd2532300905ee588be48480ce1dc
> seens weird as it was done by root at localhost.localdomain, and it is a big
> commit, and it is also the commit that bumped the version:
> 486380cd (root             2007-08-24 21:13:39 +0800 25)         0.84.7,


How is this fixed in git history to show the correct person's name and 
email address? (It is in the ChangeLog.)

And does git have some configuration to disallow an Author named "root"?

I read that another popular open source project was compromised by an 
attacker who used a committer's compromised account.

  Jeremy C. Reed