Re: Minor documentation problems

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>]

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

>   Moreover, I'm more and more thinking about removing the fallback on
> guessing based on /etc/passwd and hostname. _Many_ people were and will
> be burnt by it, and I think it's more sane to require the user to
> confirm once what the valid credentials are (at _that_ point it's ok to
> guess, but the user has to confirm it) than let them unconsciously do
> 200 commits with completely bogus author lines.

IIRC, Darcs will prompt interactively the first time and remember it.
The problem of interactive prompt is that it can break scripts (which
are not always ran from an interactive prompt), so it's probably OK to
do this in cogito, but less so in git.

One nice thing with guess-and-don't-ask is that people who don't care
don't have to bother about this. I mean, some people have been
satisfied with CVS storing the username of the guy doing the access
which is often wrong for years, so ... it's probably OK to use an
incorrect guess for a private project with, say, <5 contributors.

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