Jeff King wrote: > Internally, we keep track of whether the author or committer > ident information was provided by the user, or whether it > was implicitly determined by the system. However, there is > currently no way for external programs or scripts to get > this information What are the intended semantics? If my machine has /etc/mailname filled out, is that an implicit identity? How about if I set the EMAIL envvar but not GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL? If external scripts are going to start using this mechanism, they will need answers to these questions to support users that run into configuration problems. A few words on this in the documentation could probably help. On most machines I have the EMAIL envvar set explicitly, but in the recent past I relied on /etc/mailname on some others, so I'm also genuinely curious about the use case here (and too lazy to dig it up). Thanks, Jonathan -- 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