From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:59:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: [RFC PATCH] hooks: add some defaults to support sane workflow to pre-commit
Message-ID: <20091020195922.GA1725@book.hvoigt.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4opv4vjh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 01:50:26AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Heiko Voigt <git-list@hvoigt.net> writes:
> 
> > It sometimes happens that you move to a new machine and forget to setup your
> > name and email address. To find this out after 10 commits can be quite
> > frustrating.
> 
> Doesn't env_hint[] kick in in fmt_ident() in such a case, though?

It is not want you usually want. You get <username>@<hostname> as the
committer but if you are working on a workstation this is seldomly your
email address. At least in my experience.

I would like this as a safeguard that you have done some basic setup
before you create any commits.

cheers Heiko