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Re: [QGIT PATCH] Add safeguards to Git::userInfo()

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AYAbdelrazak Younes <younes@lyx.org>
Date
Oct 7, 2008, 17:38 UTC
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<48EB9EB1.7080302@lyx.org>
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<e5bfff550810070955o5ea20e90jf52faf31a0ada013@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/10/2008 18:55, Marco Costalba wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Marco Costalba<mcostalba@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> An empty user and email it does not mean failure. Again, I would think
>> that is git config that returns no data (without failing) if it is run
>> from outside git directory.
>>
>
> Yes ! it is like this, I have finally had the possibility to test.
>
> git config does not returns user and mail if run outside git dir
> because user and mail are local set.
So how do you explain this:

C:\>git config --global user.name Abdelrazak Younes

C:\>git config user.name Abdelrazak Younes

I get the same result in any directory, git repo or not. FYI, I never set the name locally, just once and globally.

Abdel.
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  1. Abdelrazak YounesOct 7, 2008
  2. Marco CostalbaOct 7, 2008
  3. Abdelrazak YounesOct 7, 2008
  4. Marco CostalbaOct 7, 2008
  5. Abdelrazak YounesOct 7, 2008
  6. Abdelrazak YounesOct 7, 2008
  7. Marco CostalbaOct 7, 2008
  8. Abdelrazak YounesOct 7, 2008
  9. Add safeguards to Git::userInfo()Abdelrazak Younes, Oct 7, 2008
  10. Marco CostalbaOct 7, 2008
  11. Marco CostalbaOct 7, 2008
  12. Abdelrazak YounesOct 7, 2008
  13. Marco CostalbaOct 7, 2008
  14. Abdelrazak YounesOct 7, 2008
  15. Marco CostalbaOct 7, 2008
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