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Re: [PATCH/RFC jn/ident-from-etc-mailname] ident: do not retrieve default ident when unnecessary

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 6, 2011, 18:19 UTC
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<7vy5wyyod1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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<20111006171719.GB6946@elie>
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> Avoid a getpwuid() call (which contacts the network if the password
> database is not local), read of /etc/mailname, gethostname() call, and
> reverse DNS lookup if the user has already chosen a name and email
> through configuration, the environment, or the command line.
Oh boy that is a hard to parse paragraph that took me three reads.

In any case, both the motivation of the patch and the change itself make sense to me. Thanks.

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  1. ident: check /etc/mailname if email is unknownJonathan Nieder, Oct 3, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2011
  3. ident: check /etc/mailname if email is unknownJonathan Nieder, Oct 3, 2011
  4. Johannes SixtOct 3, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederOct 3, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2011
  7. ident: do not retrieve default ident when unnecessaryJonathan Nieder, Oct 6, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 6, 2011
  9. Jonathan NiederOct 6, 2011
  10. Ian JacksonOct 3, 2011
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