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Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

From
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 20, 2017, 10:19 UTC
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<1503224389.2116.5.camel@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2017-08-20 at 05:18 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> Ironically, Git used to behave as you requested in 2005. After being
> bombarded with complaints about how Git was too lax in creating commits
> with bogus ident information, we changed it in 2012. So I don't think
> "it's 2017" carries any weight as an argument.
>

I would like to go with the "don't create commits with bogus ident". "bogus idents" seem to go against the notion of a "content tracker" which should *help* identifying the user who was the reason behind the change. It shoudln't encourage users to create "anonymous changes". Thus an "anonymous user" seems to completely obscure the meaning of a "content tracker", at least in my opinion

Moreover, there's no tool that can satisfy *all* of it's users because Humans are so diverse in their thoughts and behaviour.

-- 
Kaartic
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  1. Jeffrey WaltonAug 19, 2017
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2017
  3. Jeffrey WaltonAug 19, 2017
  4. Patryk ObaraAug 19, 2017
  5. Jeff KingAug 20, 2017
  6. Kaartic SivaraamAug 20, 2017
  7. Andrew ArdillAug 20, 2017
  8. Anatolii BorodinAug 20, 2017
  9. Andrew ArdillAug 20, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 20, 2017
  11. Jeff KingAug 23, 2017
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2017
  13. Anatolii BorodinAug 20, 2017

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