Respect git environment variables when committing
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Description
**Describe the bug**
According to https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Environment-Variables git uses environment variables as primary source for name and email configuration.
> The final creation of a Git commit object is usually done by git-commit-tree, which uses these environment variables as its primary source of information, falling back to configuration values only if these aren’t present.
**To Reproduce**
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Set:
```
export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="Your Name"
export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="git@example.com"
export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="git@example.com"
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Your Name"
export EMAIL="git@example.com"
```
2. Commit something with `git commit`
3. See in the logs that the env var values were used
4. Commit something with gitui
5. See in the logs that the git configured user was used instead.
**Expected behavior**
As git docs explains, environment variables should be used as primary source for the git commit command. If the variables are not configured we fall back to git configuration values.
**Screenshots**
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**Context (please complete the following information):**
- OS/Distro + Version: Ubuntu 20.04.5
- GitUI Version: gitui 0.22.1
- Rust version: No idea, I use the package from the Nix package manager
**Additional context**
Even though it's suboptimal it's quite common that humans share users on certain machines, when working with Git it's nice to be able to send GIT_* and EMAIL over SSH to Git and gitui 😄
Workaround: Stage with gitui, commit with git (Same workaround as signing commits).
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