Re: [PATCH] Improved hint on how to set identity

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Aug 14, 2007, 05:54 UTC
Message-ID: <3ED86523-8FEA-4141-BA8A-14FAFD7CD93E@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vps1qellx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:22 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
>
>> maybe... but my feeling is that the majority of people has only
>> a single identity. Having multiple identities is, in my opinion,
>> advanced usage, and should be mentioned after the common case.
>
> My point was that there is nothing that backs up that your
> feeling of the majority is correct.  I personally do not have
> much preference either way and I certainly do not claim that I
> have better feel of what the majority wants than you do.  I just
> want to see something more concrete than "I think majority wants
> this" to change what has been there for some time.

I see your point. Yet I do not understand, why people might want to have _no_ default identity. I think everyone should have a default identity. That is what my patch does: tell the user to setup a default account identity first. Per repository identities can be set up later.

	Steffen