On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 01:50:26AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Heiko Voigt <git-list@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > It sometimes happens that you move to a new machine and forget to setup your > > name and email address. To find this out after 10 commits can be quite > > frustrating. > > Doesn't env_hint[] kick in in fmt_ident() in such a case, though? It is not want you usually want. You get <username>@<hostname> as the committer but if you are working on a workstation this is seldomly your email address. At least in my experience. I would like this as a safeguard that you have done some basic setup before you create any commits. cheers Heiko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html