Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Just adding the "Committer:" reminder is slightly annoying (though > perhaps some people will even like it). Adding a big advice message on > every commit is going to be annoying to everyone who sees it, and is > really crossing the line of "we don't really support implicit identities > anymore", since anyone seeing it is going to want to fix it. > > I know there has been some discussion of that area in the last few > months, but I admit I didn't pay any attention. Is that the direction we > want to move in? I don't have a particular problem with it, but I want > to point out that if there _are_ people who really like the implicit > ident feature, we are effectively killing it off for them. Traditionally, we've only had a minimal sanity check (e.g. to barf when the name is empty, or something silly like that) and tried to come up with a reasonable name/email given the available system information. In olden days, `whoami`@`hostname`, at least on systems that were competently maintained, gave a reasonable mail address for most people, but I think it stopped being adequate more than 10 years ago, and it is not useful anymore to majority of people, especially the ones who work on Open Source projects as individuals, whose desired public identities are often tied to their email account at their ISPs or mailbox providers (like gmail). There is no way for us to guess, when `whoami`@`hostname -f` is the only thing we can go by without explicit user configuration. Inside corporate environments, `whoami`@`hostname -f` might still be a reasonable and usable default, though. So I think the safest thing to do would be to give a big advice but make it squelch-able with advice.howToSetYourIdentity or something. -- 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