Re: [PATCH] Improved hint on how to set identity

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 14, 2007, 05:22 UTC
Message-ID: <7vps1qellx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <06A460CB-BF06-4D9D-9219-4D4EC656EF9B@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> maybe... but my feeling is that the majority of people has only
> a single identity. Having multiple identities is, in my opinion,
> advanced usage, and should be mentioned after the common case.

My point was that there is nothing that backs up that your feeling of the majority is correct. I personally do not have much preference either way and I certainly do not claim that I have better feel of what the majority wants than you do. I just want to see something more concrete than "I think majority wants this" to change what has been there for some time.

> I remember when I started, I didn't immediately recognize that
> I need to set my identity (or how to do it). Therefore I ended
> up with different identities on different machines,...

You might want to search the mailing list archive for message from Linus why he thinks having different per machine identity for committer field is a good thing. People have different taste and needs.