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Re: Email address from username and hostname preferred over $EMAIL

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 6, 2007, 01:17 UTC
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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:
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> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> If you want it to prefer $EMAIL, you'd need to change the
>> initialization of git_default_email, methinks.
>>
>> 		Linus
>
> I just sent an email to the list, and not in reply to this thread
> because I thought I read a comment about not posting a patch deep in
> a thread.
>
> But, I'm thinking I should have just posted it as a reply to the thread
> since I quoted a portion of your message.
Are Brandon Casey and Matt Kraai the same person?

I do not mind threadedness of the patch too much, but the patch recently posted by the latter does not have any description other than the title.

Other than that, I think the change itself seems sane.
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Message 6 of 8 in “Email address from username and hostname preferred over $EMAIL”
  1. mkraai@beckman.comJul 5, 2007
  2. Pierre HabouzitJul 5, 2007
  3. mkraai@beckman.comJul 5, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsJul 5, 2007
  5. Brandon CaseyJul 6, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2007
  7. Brandon CaseyJul 6, 2007
  8. Josh TriplettJul 6, 2007

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