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Re: git ident

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 9, 2006, 19:01 UTC
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<7v7j5ybmjx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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Jeremy English <jhe@jeremyenglish.org> writes:
> What I don't like is that the error comes up
> after I have typed in my comment, then my comment is lost, that's
> frustrating.

Sympathizable, but presumably a new user needs to be burned only once (set them either in $HOME/.profile or .git/config if you want to use separate identity per project).

> ....  The other thing is I don't care if the commit is coming
> from a valid person, why require this?

Because public projects like the kernel wants to prevent otherwise good commits from a misconfigured repository to propagate into them. We could have a separate per-repository configuration to say "broken identity is not a problem for this project", but if the user has to set that in the configuration, she would be better off setting her identity there.

And making it the default not to require the identity is going backwards. Our primary focus is to support public, multi-person, distributed development project.

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