Re: [PATCH] Disallow empty GIT_AUTHOR_NAME or GIT_COMMITTER_NAME

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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
...
>> This still allows an empty GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL or GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL.
>> Possibly someone would want to use these variables to disable
>> the respective email address string?
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks.  But this makes me wonder why you do not do the same
> check for !*email

I thought someone may want to disable the author or committer email
address by setting GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL or GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL to an
empty string. I wasn't sure this was useful that's why I put a '?'
at the end of my commit message.


>> Then I send the patch to myself using git-format-patch and then
>> git-send-email. These two format the patch appropriately for
>> submission and allow me to set the message-id.
>>
>> Then I select the message, right-click and choose "Edit As New...",
>> edit, select the recipients, and send. I also now have a record of
>> the sent message which I would not have if I used only git-send-email.
> 
> I would just add myself to --bcc when running send-email; much
> simpler ;-). 

currently I can only use send-email to send email to myself, so this
was an alternative to setting up an external editor in thunderbird.
It's currently the path of least resistance for me.

-brandon

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