Re: What is missing from Git v2.0
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- Apr 24, 2014, 15:47 UTC
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 05:00:13PM +0200, Stefan Beller wrote:
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> > I don't even think we need to query the user to fill out all of the > > fields. We can prepopulate a lot of the fields (name, e-mail address, > > etc.) from OS specific defaults that are available on most systems --- > > specifically, the default values we would use the name and e-mail > > address are not specified in a config file. > > Please don't. Or you end up again with Commiters like sb@localhost, > sbeller@(None) or alike. I mean it's just one question once you setup > a new computer, so I'd really like to see that question and then > answer myself (at university/employer I might put in another email > address than at home anyway, and I'm sure my boxes have no sane > defaults)
But that's no worse than what we have today. What if we print what the defaults were, which might help encourage the user to actually run the "git config -e" command?
- Ted