From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:06:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: add proper default sender
Message-ID: <20121113000637.GI10531@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20121113000217.GH10531@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 07:02:17PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> The one distinction that would make sense to me is pausing to ask when
> we use "implicit" methods to look up the ident, like concatenating the
> username with the hostname to get the email.

By the way, I suspect this is the answer to "what do people type for
this prompt". It is probably more about a safety on bad ident than it is
about people routinely updating the information. I actually think it
would make more sense to drop the prompt entirely and just die when the
user has not given us a usable ident. But maybe people who do one-off
format-patches would rather type their name in a prompt than set an
environment variable and re-run the program.

-Peff