Re: [PATCH 1/4] t3400 (rebase): don't set GIT_AUTHOR_{NAME,EMAIL}

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
> <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> test-lib.sh already sets a sane GIT_AUTHOR_{NAME,EMAIL} for all test
>> scripts to use.  Don't unnecessarily duplicate the work.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  t/t3400-rebase.sh | 4 ----
>>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/t/t3400-rebase.sh b/t/t3400-rebase.sh
>> index b58fa1a..a7ca2f1 100755
>> --- a/t/t3400-rebase.sh
>> +++ b/t/t3400-rebase.sh
>> @@ -10,10 +10,6 @@ among other things.
>>  '
>>  . ./test-lib.sh
>>
>> -GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=author@name
>> -GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=bogus@email@address
>
> These values are intentionally bogus. Doesn't this change defeat the
> purpose of 43c2325 (am: use get_author_ident_from_commit instead of
> mailinfo when rebasing; 2010-06-16)?
>
>> -export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
>> -

Then perhaps there needs an in-code comment before these three lines
to explain why they are deliberately set to bogus values, no?