From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:19:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC jn/ident-from-etc-mailname] ident: do not retrieve default ident when unnecessary
Message-ID: <7vy5wyyod1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <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.