I may have missunderstood. So today you cannot commit if you don't provide an email address (usually the first time you try to commit, git asks to "git config --global author.email=<you@xxxxxxxxx>"), if I remember correctly, so there is definitely a valid (i.e. user approved) email address. 2014-04-24 17:47 GMT+02:00 <tytso@xxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 05:00:13PM +0200, Stefan Beller wrote: >> > I don't even think we need to query the user to fill out all of the >> > fields. We can prepopulate a lot of the fields (name, e-mail address, >> > etc.) from OS specific defaults that are available on most systems --- >> > specifically, the default values we would use the name and e-mail >> > address are not specified in a config file. >> >> Please don't. Or you end up again with Commiters like sb@localhost, >> sbeller@(None) or alike. I mean it's just one question once you setup >> a new computer, so I'd really like to see that question and then >> answer myself (at university/employer I might put in another email >> address than at home anyway, and I'm sure my boxes have no sane >> defaults) > > But that's no worse than what we have today. What if we print what > the defaults were, which might help encourage the user to actually run > the "git config -e" command? > > - Ted -- 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