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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of
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Cc: Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:30:24PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I think what we could do if we wanted to protect people from
> unconfigured identity is to stop pulling names from gecos and
> hostname, and respect _only_ environment and config.

I am fine with that, as I have always set up the configuration manually
anyway. But I think it would need a significant comment period from the
list (ISTR that Linus _likes_ pulling the hostname from gecos).

-Peff