Jeff King wrote: > Even if it worked, though, I am not sure it would be worth such a rule. > The /etc/mailname file is not a standard, so you would effectively be > cutting off the auto-ident behavior for people on every other system. If > we are going to do that, we might as well do it uniformly. I don't fully follow. Do you mean that because other operating systems choose not to make full use of an /etc/mailname file when it is present (and instead use per-MTA configuration), git should not take advantage of it to choose an appropriate email address? Or do you mean that on non-Debian systems, the FQDN for localhost is reliably the mailname, just like on Debian systems /etc/mailname is supposed to be? Confused, 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