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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git 1.1.6.g4d44 make test FAILURE report
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:17:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvevmtza4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43ED3FD3.7020005@gmail.com> (A. Large Angry's message of "Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:37:23 -0800")

A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:

> Also, git-var complains when used by an account with an empty gcos
> field; thereby, breaking all the non-C git commands even when the user
> is not committing.
>
> If the _intent_ was to force commiters and author names in commits,
> why was the test not placed only in commit-tree.c?

git-var was more or less intentional.  Scripts such as
git-applypatch, git-commit and git-tag use the command to grab
COMMITTER_IDENT to generate sign-off line and tagger information
when asked, and commit-tree.c changes alone would not catch
them.

A user eventually would make commit so it may not be a too bad
to _strongly_ encourage setting up these environment variables,
by being nasty ;-).  I agree it would be _very_ annoying until
you either fix your gecos and/or environment.

Ideas welcome.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-11  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-10 21:19 Git 1.1.6.g4d44 make test FAILURE report A Large Angry SCM
2006-02-10 21:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-11  1:37   ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-02-11  2:17     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-02-11  3:52       ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-02-11  4:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-11  4:43           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-11 12:10             ` [PATCH] Teach repo-config the -l and --get-regexp options Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-12  3:05               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-12  3:14             ` [PATCH] Add support for explicit type specifiers when calling git-repo-config Petr Baudis

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