From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikolai Weibull Subject: Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again? Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:31:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20050920103115.GA8979@puritan.pnetwork> References: <20050919134838.GC2903@pasky.or.cz> <20050919163219.GA8862@puritan.pnetwork> <7v8xxsfqrw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 20 12:32:00 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHfPE-0005eJ-7G for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:31:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964965AbVITKbR (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:31:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964966AbVITKbR (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:31:17 -0400 Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com ([195.54.107.73]:65208 "EHLO mxfep02.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964965AbVITKbQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:31:16 -0400 Received: from puritan.petwork ([213.112.43.228] [213.112.43.228]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050920103115.OALT3281.mxfep02.bredband.com@puritan.petwork> for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:31:15 +0200 Received: by puritan.petwork (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 45FCDADFEA; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:31:15 +0200 (CEST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v8xxsfqrw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nikolai Weibull writes: > > If we stop using GECOS, then can we please start using $EMAIL (or > > perhaps use it regardless of whether we use GECOS or not)? A lot of > > applications seem to look for $EMAIL and I think that it's universal > > enough for git to use it as well. To me it seems that both > > GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, and > > GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL can use it,... > I am not convinced $EMAIL is used as widely as you claim above (could > you give a list of applications please?), but if it is that sounds > like a sensible idea. I was sadly mistaken. It doesn't seem to be so well-used after all. Here's a list of applications that use it: * mutt (the only one that really counts) * darcs (which also uses DARCS_EMAIL) * various debian utilities (who cares) * Vim's changelog package (which I have written, so that doesn't count) Quite a sad list, so I suppose that there's really no point in it..., nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}