On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:53:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The official party line to defend the existing behaviour is that > there is no need to configure anything, when the host and gecos > is done properly. But I tend to agree with you that quite a lot > of systems are not "done properly", and users cannot do much > about it in some cases. I think most of misconfigured systems > are personal boxes they have control over but not all. I think there are plenty of reasons for the host/gecos information not being useful. Is a workstation whose hostname is not a valid mailing address really not "done properly"? > Perhaps we could disable the code that reads from hostname and > gecos, and instead always force the users to configure. But > that kind of change is not something I'd want to be discussing > right now. This is obviously not 1.5.4 material, so I haven't given it that much thought either. But perhaps Stephen's "author message" should simply trigger any time the author is pulled from gecos? I suppose that would annoy people who use this feature all the time, but they can silence the "warning" with a simple git-config. -Peff - 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
