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Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:26:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Giorgos Gasparis Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Feature Proposal] Add a built-in 'git whoami' command In-Reply-To: (Giorgos Gasparis's message of "Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:57:55 +0300") References: Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:26:12 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Giorgos Gasparis writes: > Hello Git team, > > I would like to propose adding a native git whoami command to Git to > easily check the currently active identity. > > Currently, users have to run two separate commands (git config > user.name and git config user.email) to check this. "git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT"?