From: tytso@mit.edu
To: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, James Denholm <nod.helm@gmail.com>,
David Lang <david@lang.hm>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What is missing from Git v2.0
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:47:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140424154717.GB7531@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALbm-EbBj1hCF=rFfeBbzeVmffRHVEEE=HSbVZxw-=-=p2BvEQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 05:00:13PM +0200, Stefan Beller wrote:
> > I don't even think we need to query the user to fill out all of the
> > fields. We can prepopulate a lot of the fields (name, e-mail address,
> > etc.) from OS specific defaults that are available on most systems ---
> > specifically, the default values we would use the name and e-mail
> > address are not specified in a config file.
>
> Please don't. Or you end up again with Commiters like sb@localhost,
> sbeller@(None) or alike. I mean it's just one question once you setup
> a new computer, so I'd really like to see that question and then
> answer myself (at university/employer I might put in another email
> address than at home anyway, and I'm sure my boxes have no sane
> defaults)
But that's no worse than what we have today. What if we print what
the defaults were, which might help encourage the user to actually run
the "git config -e" command?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-24 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-20 22:41 What is missing from Git v2.0 Felipe Contreras
2014-04-20 22:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-21 19:24 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2014-04-21 19:34 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-21 19:47 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2014-04-21 20:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-21 20:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-22 7:23 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2014-04-22 8:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-21 19:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-22 7:19 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2014-04-22 8:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-22 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-22 19:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-22 20:22 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-22 21:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-22 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-22 21:30 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-22 21:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-22 22:24 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 3:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-24 5:18 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 13:39 ` Andreas Krey
2014-04-24 18:31 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-24 19:16 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-22 22:25 ` David Lang
2014-04-24 3:37 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-24 3:51 ` David Lang
2014-04-24 3:58 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-24 4:16 ` James Denholm
2014-04-24 4:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-24 6:06 ` James Denholm
2014-04-24 7:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-24 7:39 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 8:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-24 9:01 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 18:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-24 19:20 ` David Lang
2014-04-24 13:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-24 15:00 ` Stefan Beller
2014-04-24 15:47 ` tytso [this message]
2014-04-24 17:46 ` Stefan Beller
2014-04-24 18:02 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-24 18:26 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-24 19:15 ` Jeff King
2014-04-24 18:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-24 18:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-25 6:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-25 7:35 ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-04-24 18:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-24 19:55 ` luc.linux
2014-04-25 2:22 ` Javier Domingo Cansino
2014-04-25 2:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-25 7:48 ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-04-25 7:52 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-25 13:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-25 14:23 ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-04-25 14:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-25 15:54 ` Philippe Vaucher
2014-04-25 17:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-25 17:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-25 18:24 ` Jeff King
2014-04-25 18:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-25 18:57 ` Jeff King
2014-04-25 18:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-25 19:12 ` Jeff King
2014-04-25 19:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-25 5:13 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-25 15:41 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-25 15:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-25 16:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-22 22:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-24 3:26 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-22 2:12 ` brian m. carlson
2014-04-22 5:10 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-22 5:19 ` David Aguilar
2014-04-22 5:38 ` Felipe Contreras
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