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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Stephen Sinclair" <radarsat1@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG.
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:22:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbq7r28qo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b3e2dc20801111609t3103af1frc23519cab43ae8be@mail.gmail.com> (Stephen Sinclair's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:09:23 -0500")

"Stephen Sinclair" <radarsat1@gmail.com> writes:

>> I'd almost agree with this patch if if added AUTHOR but not
>> COMMITTER, and only when AUTHOR is different from me.  That
>> would help reassure anybody while amending other's changes.
>> COMMITTER is always me and I should not reminded with extra
>> lines that waste precious screen real estate.
>
> The purpose of my patch was to remind _myself_ what my name is, in
> case I hadn't configured it correctly.

In that case, I would imagine a rule like this would be more
appropriate than unconditionally showing AUTHOR/COMMITTER in all
cases:

 * If AUTHOR_NAME+EMAIL is different from AUTHOR_NAME+EMAIL that
   I would normally get for myself, or

 * If AUTHOR_NAME+EMAIL contains garbage identifier commonly
   found when misconfigured (e.g. ".(none)" at the end of
   e-mail),

then show AUTHOR.  In addition, if it is the latter case, give
hints to configure before casting the mistake in stone.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-12  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-11 20:10 [PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG Stephen Sinclair
2008-01-11 21:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-11 23:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12  0:09   ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-01-12  0:22     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-12  1:33       ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-01-12  1:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12  2:25           ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-01-12  4:57             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12  7:26               ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-01-12  8:02                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12  4:52           ` Jeff King
2008-01-12  5:06             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12  5:30               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12  5:32                 ` Jeff King
2008-01-12  5:56                   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-12  5:58                     ` Jeff King

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