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Re: Why is ident_is_sufficient different on Windows?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 6, 2013, 20:47 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> I suspect somebody from the Windows camp saw a patch I posted
> without the ifdef, noticed that there is a problem to expect
> IDENT_NAME_GIVEN to be set on Windows for some reason, and resulted
> in a reroll of the function in that shape.
>
> I didn't find anything in the list archive, though.  So I am
> stumped.

The only thing I can think of is that on Unix we can guess name from GECOS, which could be considered sufficiently your name, while on Windows we probably do not get anything useful there.

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