From: A Large Angry SCM Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:16:47 GMT Subject: Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again? Message-ID: <432EE46F.9000806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > >>Saying that the user's name is first and a particular punctuation >>character SHALL be the standard cut point and everyone not happy with >>the results should explicitly set the Git environment variables is the >>wrong approach. > > I disagree. Standard add-user tools use the gecos field in one of two ways: s/two/many/ > - fullname > - fullname,and,some,other,cruft - title,name and other stuff - department, name and other stuff - other punctuation, etc. > > Sure, many organizations bake their own, but I'd argue that the majority > doesn't. The point is we should not be telling them what and how to put stuff in the GECOS field. >>AND/OR to include >>the what Git thinks the user's name name might be in the commit message >>template they're editing (like the file list). > > I think that's a good idea, as long as people are told how to change it > (i.e., an envvar -- NOT by editing the file). Yes.