From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: A Large Angry SCM Subject: Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again? Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:16:47 -0400 Message-ID: <432EE46F.9000806@gmail.com> References: <20050919134838.GC2903@pasky.or.cz> <432ECB92.5000505@gmail.com> Reply-To: gitzilla@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 19 18:20:59 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHOLC-000632-UU for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:18:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932491AbVISQQ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:16:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932492AbVISQQ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:16:56 -0400 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.195]:19331 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932491AbVISQQy (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:16:54 -0400 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i31so439365wxd for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:16:50 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HcFxBd3h91t5mrgJ29BG7KZAOqIzwc9oKD1YkcaqjDS01VOkbBofpeXlQVmmJCC6FbvGqnRnibSjcOzJ4vleXxsOy2ruHVuH2JKwDz27SBiNdk4u3h5uC7YA2KUftvroyL2b3JOTwpUh57/9FJtlDDgNdqzgBCBL4Vg7ezw1SUg= Received: by 10.70.31.17 with SMTP id e17mr1369665wxe; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? ( [70.89.97.97]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i38sm568209wxd.2005.09.19.09.16.48; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:16:49 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Matthias Urlichs In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > >>Saying that the user's name is first and a particular punctuation >>character SHALL be the standard cut point and everyone not happy with >>the results should explicitly set the Git environment variables is the >>wrong approach. > > I disagree. Standard add-user tools use the gecos field in one of two ways: s/two/many/ > - fullname > - fullname,and,some,other,cruft - title,name and other stuff - department, name and other stuff - other punctuation, etc. > > Sure, many organizations bake their own, but I'd argue that the majority > doesn't. The point is we should not be telling them what and how to put stuff in the GECOS field. >>AND/OR to include >>the what Git thinks the user's name name might be in the commit message >>template they're editing (like the file list). > > I think that's a good idea, as long as people are told how to change it > (i.e., an envvar -- NOT by editing the file). Yes.