From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:06:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use user.name and user.email in import-tars.perl
Message-ID: <7v3arixm8h.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1203857838-29505-1-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org>

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> Mimic what is done in git-import.sh and git-import.perl
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
> ---
>
>  And that made me wonder if it wouldn't be worth, actually, to have
>  git config user.name and git config user.email return the "magic" values
>  gotten from guessing in ident.c when no value is in the config. That would
>  allow scripts, which have no other simple means to get the user name and
>  email, to have the same feature as builtins.

Or perhaps use "git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT"?