From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:56:52 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: <40aa078e1003190756h190af29ao472508aaf624efe3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Michael Witten wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:08, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> First, the user.name and user.email does not need to be name and email >> from some email account.  It might be some "canonical name" and >> "canonical email". > > The vast majority of patches come in through email; the git tools > expect the user.name and user.email to reflect physical email account > information. What git tools would that be? The only one I know of that does anything near assuming that is git send-email, and it only uses user.email if neither sendemail.from is configured nor --from option is specified. And even when it does, it prompts the user so it can be changed if called from a terminal. So I wouldn't say that it assumes anything about the "physicalness" of user.email, it just uses it's as the most sane default unless anything else has been specified. -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund