Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2014, 18:26 UTC
Message-ID: <53595759dce2a_3241f112ec9b@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <20140424180204.GL15516@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Stefan Beller wrote:
> 
> > I may have missunderstood.
> >
> > So today you cannot commit if you don't provide an email address
> > (usually the first time you try to commit, git asks to "git config
> > --global author.email=<you@mail.here>"), if I remember correctly, so
> > there is definitely a valid (i.e. user approved) email address.
> 
> Not true.  But you do get a big wall of text when you make your
> first commit without an EMAIL envvar or configured [user] section,
> including

Only if you don't have a fully qualified hostname.

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Felipe Contreras

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