From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG. Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:56:15 -0800 Message-ID: <7vhchjy4cg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <9b3e2dc20801111210n7bd7a71cw437819aa6253ae85@mail.gmail.com> <7v3at42avd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <9b3e2dc20801111609t3103af1frc23519cab43ae8be@mail.gmail.com> <7vbq7r28qo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <9b3e2dc20801111733o477b3aadv6ee76d3aafade54a@mail.gmail.com> <7vejcnzu5z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080112045231.GB5211@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vprw7y6mz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vlk6vy5jj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080112053225.GA6059@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Stephen Sinclair , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 12 06:57:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JDZN0-0003cy-3M for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:57:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762606AbYALF4f (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:56:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762588AbYALF4f (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:56:35 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:41064 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762581AbYALF4d (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:56:33 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 715BA4B5A; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:56:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D344B59; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:56:27 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20080112053225.GA6059@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:32:25 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King 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.