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Re: git should not use a default user.email config value

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 10, 2013, 06:40 UTC
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<20130810064056.GA3165@elie.Belkin>
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<20130810061720.GA30185@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> Even if it worked, though, I am not sure it would be worth such a rule.
> The /etc/mailname file is not a standard, so you would effectively be
> cutting off the auto-ident behavior for people on every other system. If
> we are going to do that, we might as well do it uniformly.

I don't fully follow. Do you mean that because other operating systems choose not to make full use of an /etc/mailname file when it is present (and instead use per-MTA configuration), git should not take advantage of it to choose an appropriate email address?

Or do you mean that on non-Debian systems, the FQDN for localhost is reliably the mailname, just like on Debian systems /etc/mailname is supposed to be?

Confused, Jonathan

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  38. conditional config syntaxJeff King, Aug 14, 2013
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