From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is ident_is_sufficient different on Windows?
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:47:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vip65b25c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmwvhb2fm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:41:17 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> I suspect somebody from the Windows camp saw a patch I posted
> without the ifdef, noticed that there is a problem to expect
> IDENT_NAME_GIVEN to be set on Windows for some reason, and resulted
> in a reroll of the function in that shape.
>
> I didn't find anything in the list archive, though. So I am
> stumped.
The only thing I can think of is that on Unix we can guess name from
GECOS, which could be considered sufficiently your name, while on
Windows we probably do not get anything useful there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-06 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-06 13:06 Why is ident_is_sufficient different on Windows? Max Horn
2013-02-06 20:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-06 20:47 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-02-06 20:52 ` Junio C Hamano
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