From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:32:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG.
Message-ID: <20080112053225.GA6059@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vlk6vy5jj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:30:24PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I think what we could do if we wanted to protect people from
> unconfigured identity is to stop pulling names from gecos and
> hostname, and respect _only_ environment and config.

I am fine with that, as I have always set up the configuration manually
anyway. But I think it would need a significant comment period from the
list (ISTR that Linus _likes_ pulling the hostname from gecos).

-Peff