tytso@ wrote: > 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? In addition we shouldn't consider user@host a valid e-mail. In the vast majority of cases it's not. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/232027 -- Felipe Contreras -- 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