From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improved hint on how to set identity Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:22:34 -0700 Message-ID: <7vps1qellx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <1187042750257-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <7vbqdbf1m2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <06A460CB-BF06-4D9D-9219-4D4EC656EF9B@zib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 14 07:22:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IKorc-0006lt-0j for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:22:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937100AbXHNFWh (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:22:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935498AbXHNFWh (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:22:37 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao105.cox.net ([68.230.241.41]:52140 "EHLO fed1rmmtao105.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933663AbXHNFWg (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:22:36 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao105.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070814052236.NHIK325.fed1rmmtao105.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:22:36 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id bhNa1X0151kojtg0000000; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:22:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <06A460CB-BF06-4D9D-9219-4D4EC656EF9B@zib.de> (Steffen Prohaska's message of "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:05:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Steffen Prohaska writes: > maybe... but my feeling is that the majority of people has only > a single identity. Having multiple identities is, in my opinion, > advanced usage, and should be mentioned after the common case. My point was that there is nothing that backs up that your feeling of the majority is correct. I personally do not have much preference either way and I certainly do not claim that I have better feel of what the majority wants than you do. I just want to see something more concrete than "I think majority wants this" to change what has been there for some time. > I remember when I started, I didn't immediately recognize that > I need to set my identity (or how to do it). Therefore I ended > up with different identities on different machines,... You might want to search the mailing list archive for message from Linus why he thinks having different per machine identity for committer field is a good thing. People have different taste and needs.