Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

[Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:08, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> First, the user.name and user.email does not need to be name and email
>> from some email account.  It might be some "canonical name" and
>> "canonical email".
>
> The vast majority of patches come in through email; the git tools
> expect the user.name and user.email to reflect physical email account
> information.

What git tools would that be? The only one I know of that does
anything near assuming that is git send-email, and it only uses
user.email if neither sendemail.from is configured nor --from option
is specified. And even when it does, it prompts the user so it can be
changed if called from a terminal. So I wouldn't say that it assumes
anything about the "physicalness" of user.email, it just uses it's as
the most sane default unless anything else has been specified.

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Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund