On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 07:02:17PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > The one distinction that would make sense to me is pausing to ask when > we use "implicit" methods to look up the ident, like concatenating the > username with the hostname to get the email. By the way, I suspect this is the answer to "what do people type for this prompt". It is probably more about a safety on bad ident than it is about people routinely updating the information. I actually think it would make more sense to drop the prompt entirely and just die when the user has not given us a usable ident. But maybe people who do one-off format-patches would rather type their name in a prompt than set an environment variable and re-run the program. -Peff -- 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