From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:56:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG.
Message-ID: <7vhchjy4cg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080112053225.GA6059@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:30:24PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I think what we could do if we wanted to protect people from
>> unconfigured identity is to stop pulling names from gecos and
>> hostname, and respect _only_ environment and config.
>
> I am fine with that, as I have always set up the configuration manually
> anyway. But I think it would need a significant comment period from the
> list (ISTR that Linus _likes_ pulling the hostname from gecos).

You do not pull hostname from gecos, but I agree with your main
point.