On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 5:31 PM Alvaro Aleman <aaleman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One nit though: There is no `--committer` flag for `git commit`,
Indeed, that `--committer=` was a last-second edit (without checking
docs). How about this?
If `user.name` and `user.email` have not been configured and the
user invokes:
git commit --author=...
without specifying the committer, then Git errors out with a
message asking the user to configure `user.name` and `user.email`
but doesn't tell the user which attribution was missing. This can
be confusing for a user new to Git who isn't aware of the
distinction between user, author, and committer. Give such users
a bit more help by extending the error message to also say which
attribution is expected.
