From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:50:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] commit: show interesting ident information in summary
Message-ID: <5722BD3D-E7C9-47F7-B547-09B14D87DA39@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100113184510.GA22849@coredump.intra.peff.net>

El 13/01/2010, a las 19:45, Jeff King escribió:

> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:39:47PM +0100, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>>> Your name and email address were configured automatically based
>>> on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
>>> You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:
>>>
>>>    git config --global user.name Your Name
>>>    git config --global user.email you@example.com
>>>
>>> If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with:
>>>
>>>    git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@example.com>'
>>>
>>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> I'll never see this message myself, but I think you could (and
>> perhaps should) replace almost all of that with:
>>
>>  Your name and email address were configured automatically.
>>  See "git config help" for information on setting them explicitly
>>  or "git commit help" if you wish to amend this commit.
>
> I don't have a huge problem with your wording, except that it needs
> s/(\w+) help/help \1/.

Whoops.

> Mainly I was trying to hand-hold because not having this information  
> set
> up means it may be your first commit, and you are probably a bit
> clueless (the exceptions are people who have been using git, but are
> seeing this new behavior in their new version, and people who have git
> configured on another machine but are using _this_ machine for the  
> first
> time).

Fair enough, but I'm sighing here at the thought of people jumping in  
and using git commands without even having looked at _any_ of the  
zillions of "your first 10 minutes with Git" tutorials out there,  
which pretty much _all_ start with how to set up your user.name and  
user.email...

Cheers,
Wincent