diff --git a/hooks/post_gen_project.sh b/hooks/post_gen_project.sh
index 708c8f1b398c420f36af0631207e421a7ddf5079..ab6593d626d53e4ac705339fff375b1880ff4864 100644
--- a/hooks/post_gen_project.sh
+++ b/hooks/post_gen_project.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 
 git init
 git add --all
-git commit -m "initial commit"
+git commit -m "initial commit" --author="Lukken <lukken@astron.nl>" --no-edit
 git tag v0.0.1
 git submodule add https://github.com/LecrisUT/CMakeExtraUtils.git cmake/cmake-extra-utils
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