From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 06:40:56 GMT
Subject: Re: git should not use a default user.email config value
Message-ID: <20130810064056.GA3165@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <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