On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:08, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> First, the user.name and user.email does not need to be name and email >> from some email account. It might be some "canonical name" and >> "canonical email". > > The vast majority of patches come in through email; the git tools > expect the user.name and user.email to reflect physical email account > information. What git tools would that be? The only one I know of that does anything near assuming that is git send-email, and it only uses user.email if neither sendemail.from is configured nor --from option is specified. And even when it does, it prompts the user so it can be changed if called from a terminal. So I wouldn't say that it assumes anything about the "physicalness" of user.email, it just uses it's as the most sane default unless anything else has been specified. -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund -- 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