Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, mkraai@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Git prefers to use an email address constructed from the username and
>> hostname to the value of the EMAIL environment variable. I think it
>> should prefer the latter to the former. This problem was introduced by
>> ec563e8153cba89728a271a26c8a94e7a42d8152.
>
> It did that very much on purpose. "git_default_email" must take
> precedence, because that's the one that is filled in by the config file
> syntax.
>
> So just use
>
> [user]
> name = ..
> email = ..
>
> and be happy. Only in the absense of that will git start guessing, and
> yeah, it will not generally use EMAIL, unless it cannot get anything at
> all from username/hostname.
>
> If you want it to prefer $EMAIL, you'd need to change the initialization
> of git_default_email, methinks.
When I originally wrote the patch, I did so intending that $EMAIL would always
override git's guess of user@hostname. I set GIT_{AUTHOR,COMMITTER}_EMAIL in
my environment specifically so that git would stop using guesses like
josh@josh-mobile and start using my actual email address. I submitted the
$EMAIL patch in hopes that eventually I could stop setting the git-specific
email addresses and just set $EMAIL, which I already do for other tools. In
order for that to work, $EMAIL should always override git's guesses.
- Josh Triplett
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