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Re: Author name and e-mail address in .stgitrc

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2006, 22:30 UTC
Message-ID
<20061111223017.GA20192@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To
<200611112126.32380.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
On 2006-11-11 21:26:31 +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
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> lördag 11 november 2006 15:57 skrev Karl Hasselström:
>
> > But I haven't gotten the impression that specifying them in
> > ~/.stgitrc is deprecated. The example stgitrc has a section with
> > author name and committer name, for example.
>
> The only docs I know of that mentions stgitrc also states that it
> isn't required, so why use it unless you have to (or for some reason
> want to)? Just because there are many ways, doesn't mean all but one
> have to be deprecated.

No, but having a config option for something that git already provides several ways to specify can't possibly be a good idea, especially usability-wise. The only use I can think of is if you _want_ to have different identities for git and stgit in the same repository, and that's just mad.

I'm preparing a patch to fix this. Stay tuned. :-)
-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
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  1. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006
  2. Author name and e-mail address in .stgitrcKarl Hasselström, Nov 11, 2006
  3. Robin RosenbergNov 11, 2006
  4. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006
  5. Robin RosenbergNov 11, 2006
  6. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006
  7. Catalin MarinasNov 11, 2006
  8. 0/3 Re: Author name and e-mail address in .stgitrcKarl Hasselström, Nov 11, 2006
  9. 1/3 Ask git for author and committer nameKarl Hasselström, Nov 11, 2006
  10. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006
  11. Catalin MarinasDec 4, 2006
  12. Karl HasselströmDec 5, 2006
  13. Catalin MarinasDec 5, 2006
  14. 2/3 Don't mention deprecated template variablesKarl Hasselström, Nov 11, 2006
  15. 3/3 Deprecate author and committer details in stgitrcKarl Hasselström, Nov 11, 2006
  16. Karl HasselströmNov 12, 2006
  17. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006

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