Re: Potential GSOC microproject idea

> On Mar 3, 2014, at 23:58, Michael Haggerty wrote:
>> list
>> regulars should FEEL ENCOURAGED to submit microprojects to add to the
>> list.  (Either submit them as a pull request to the GitHub repository
>> that contains the text [1] or to the mailing list with CC to me.)
> 
> Potential idea for a microproject:
> 
> Add a new config setting:
> 
>   user.allowImplicitIdentity
>     Defaults to true.
>     If user.name and GIT_COMMITTER_NAME are unset or user.email and
>     GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL and EMAIL are unset, an implicit value is
>     substituted for one or both of user.name and user.email.  If
>     an automatically generated value is used for both name and email
>     a warning "Your name and email address were configured
> automatically..."
>     is displayed.  If set to false, no or never, instead of a warning,
>     an error is generated and the operation fails:
> 
>         *** Please tell me who you are.
> 
>         Run
> 
>           git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
>           git config --global user.name "Your Name"
> 
>         to set your account's default identity.
>         Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.
> 
>         fatal: implicit user identity not allowed
> 
>     the advice portion can be suppressed by setting
> advice.implicitIdentity to false,
>     but not the "fatal: implicit user identity not allowed" part.
> 
> Note that if "git config --system --bool user.allowImplicitIdentity
> false" is in effect, it should still be possible to clone (ref logs may
> be updated, but they should be allowed to use an implicit identity).  In
> other words user.allowImplicitIdentity=false should only inhibit writing
> any new commit/tag objects that need the current user's name and email
> when it has not been explicitly provided.
> 
> I'm not sure how micro this is.  :)  I do think the amount of code
> involved is rather small though.  Support for something like this has
> popped up on the list before.  Perhaps "user.allowAutomaticIdentity" and
> "advice.automaticIdentity" would be better config names.