Re: [PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2008, 05:06 UTC
Message-ID: <7vprw7y6mz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080112045231.GB5211@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> This is obviously not 1.5.4 material, so I haven't given it that much
> thought either. But perhaps Stephen's "author message" should simply
> trigger any time the author is pulled from gecos? I suppose that would
> annoy people who use this feature all the time, but they can silence the
> "warning" with a simple git-config.

Well, we could certainly do that.

But I am not entirely happy with the idea of having to make the default silly and inconvenient, only because otherwise new people who did not even bother to read and follow the VERY FIRST subsection of the tutorial that tells them that the first thing to do is to use user.name and user.email would not notice their problems, and experts know enough to squelch that broken default. Middle level people (and newbies will quickly become one of them) will be inconvenienced even though they followed the tutorial's instruction, until they find the configuration variable to turn that silly AUTHOR output off.