From: Felipe Contreras Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:38:08 GMT Subject: Re: What is missing from Git v2.0 Message-ID: <53595a107cf1f_3241f112ec72@nysa.notmuch> In-Reply-To: <20140424134106.GA27035@thunk.org> Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 03:23:54AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > > There is evidence for the claim that there won't be those problems. You have > > absolutely no evidence there there will. > > It's clear that you've not been able to produce evidence that can > convince most of the people on this thread. Which only proves you don't want to be convinced, no evidence could convince you. > I don't even think we need to query the user to fill out all of the > fields. We can prepopulate a lot of the fields (name, e-mail address, > etc.) from OS specific defaults that are available on most systems --- > specifically, the default values we would use the name and e-mail > address are not specified in a config file. Most systems don't have a configured $EMAIL, so those defautls would be wrong. It's so evident that no evide could convince you that you don't even bothere to answer my question: Why does Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, CVS, and pretty much everything uses aliases? Since you are conveniently not answering, I'll answer for you: Because such hypothetical problems wouldn't actually occur in reality with Git, just like they don't occur in other tools. -- Felipe Contreras