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Re: Email address from username and hostname preferred over $EMAIL

From
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date
Jul 5, 2007, 20:21 UTC
Message-ID
<20070705202140.GA24349@artemis.corp>
In-Reply-To
<OF40A04FE5.AA34B1BF-ON8825730F.005D733A-8825730F.0062A716@beckman.com>
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:57:37AM -0700, mkraai@beckman.com wrote:
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> Howdy,
> 
> Git prefers to use an email address constructed from the username and 
> hostname to the value of the EMAIL environment variable.  I think it 
> should prefer the latter to the former.  This problem was introduced by 
> ec563e8153cba89728a271a26c8a94e7a42d8152.
  no, ec563e8153cba89728a271a26c8a94e7a42d8152 is about making the
emails and usernames be taken from EMAIL iff there is none specified in
the different .gitconfig's (which is sane as $EMAIL is a system wide
default setting and that .git/config is definitely meant as an ovveride
of that setting).
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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  1. mkraai@beckman.comJul 5, 2007
  2. Pierre HabouzitJul 5, 2007
  3. mkraai@beckman.comJul 5, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsJul 5, 2007
  5. Brandon CaseyJul 6, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2007
  7. Brandon CaseyJul 6, 2007
  8. Josh TriplettJul 6, 2007

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