Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again?

From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org>
Date: Sep 19, 2005, 16:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20050919163219.GA8862@puritan.pnetwork>
In-Reply-To: <20050919134838.GC2903@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:

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>   So my proposal (patch will follow soon) is to cut everything after the
> first , or ; from the GECOS field. These are the usual delimiters used
> in the GECOS field, and hopefully this will prevent polluting the
> realname fields of commit headers with crap and surprising the users.
> In the (I think rather rare) situation of the "Baudis, Petr"-like GECOS
> fields, this will just result in only the surname being in the realname
> field, which seems to be much less harmful and comparably less evil to
> me.

If we stop using GECOS, then can we please start using $EMAIL (or perhaps use it regardless of whether we use GECOS or not)? A lot of applications seem to look for $EMAIL and I think that it's universal enough for git to use it as well. To me it seems that both GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL can use it, as I set $EMAIL as

EMAIL="Nikolai Weibull <something@something.something>"

Perhaps I should provide a patch instead of just putting out requests?,
        nikolai

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