Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config"

From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
Date: Dec 13, 2018, 19:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20181213192930.GA21006@whubbs1.gaikai.biz>
In-Reply-To: <20181207224428.GE73340@google.com>

Hi Jonathan,

On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 02:44:28PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:20:07PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> >> There *is* a way to get what you want that is super easy and will
> >> definitely work: if you sit down and do it ;-)
> >>
> >> Please let us know if you need any additional information before you can
> >> start.
> >
> > Which branch should I work off of in the repo?
> 
> "master".
> 
> Also, please make sure the documentation (e.g. in
> Documentation/config/user.txt) describes when a user would want to set
> this option.

Is the git team on an irc channel somewhere, or should I start sending patches that I know are incomplete to the list?

I would like to work with someone on this since I'm not that familiar with the git sources. :-)

Thanks,

William