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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG.
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:56:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhchjy4cg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080112053225.GA6059@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:32:25 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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).

You do not pull hostname from gecos, but I agree with your main
point.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-12  5:57 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
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 [this message]
2008-01-12  5:58                     ` Jeff King

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