Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'll never see this message myself, but I think you could (and perhaps > should) replace almost all of that with: > > Your name and email address were configured automatically. > See "git config help" for information on setting them explicitly > or "git commit help" if you wish to amend this commit. I don't think this is a good idea. The two main cases when this information will be shown is: * Newbies, who didn't read the doc, or read it too fast. They'll happily ignore your short message. For example, I just started a project with 200 students. The doc we give them _starts_ with setting user/email in ~/.gitconfig, right before we give them the URL of the repository they'll work on. Out of that, 22 email adresses were mis-configured. Don't underestimate the ability of newbies not to read doc, even when told to do so. If the message is long, it'll be disturbing, and they may end up reading it. * Non-newbies, using a machine for the first time. These users will see the message once, so it's not really disturbing, and at least I would appreciate the message to be flashy, to make sure I don't miss it. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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