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Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] ident: cleanup wrt ident's source

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 5, 2016, 19:24 UTC
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<20160205192413.GB7245@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 11:05:19AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Dan Aloni <alonid@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > This change condenses the variables that tells where we got the user's
> > ident into single enum, instead of a collection of booleans.
> >
> > In addtion, also have {committer,author}_ident_sufficiently_given
> > directly probe the environment and the afformentioned enum instead of
> > relying on git_{committer,author}_info to do so.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <alonid@gmail.com>
> > Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> > Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> > ---
> >  ident.c | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 80 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> 
> Peff what do you think?  I am asking you because personally I do not
> find this particularly easier to read than the original, but since
> you stared at the code around here recently much longer than I did
> when doing the 1/3, I thought you may be a better judge than I am.

I'm not sure it is really worth it unless we are going to expose this to the user, and let them say "I am OK with IDENT_SOURCE_GUESSED, but not IDENT_SOURCE_GUESSED_BOGUS" or similar.

Without that, I think it is probably just making things a bit more brittle.

-Peff
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Message 10 of 11 in “ident: add user.useConfigOnly boolean for when ident shouldn't be guessed”
  1. ident: add user.useConfigOnly boolean for when ident shouldn't be guessedDan Aloni, Feb 5, 2016
  2. 1/3 fmt_ident: refactor strictness checksDan Aloni, Feb 5, 2016
  3. 2/3 ident: add user.useConfigOnly boolean for when ident shouldn't be guessedDan Aloni, Feb 5, 2016
  4. Jeff KingFeb 5, 2016
  5. Eric SunshineFeb 5, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2016
  7. Dan AloniFeb 5, 2016
  8. 3/3 ident: cleanup wrt ident's sourceDan Aloni, Feb 5, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2016
  10. Jeff KingFeb 5, 2016
  11. Dan AloniFeb 5, 2016

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