Re: git-PS1 bash prompt setting

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 27, 2006, 08:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy7pxjmw7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061126150523.GB18828@hermes.lan.home.vilz.de>

Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de> writes:

> I glued that in my system bashrc with the extension, that it shows to me
> user.email out of repo-config, which is also very handy. So I am always
> reminded to set my user.credentials in .git/config and i always know which 
> role i play in the repository i am working at.

I think there is something wrong if the user needs to be _constantly_ reminded who he is. Care to explain?

There was a talk on the list about making "git-commit" (and "git-merge" that does not do a fast-forward) refuse to proceed until user.nameemail are explicitly set in the configuration. I think that particular implementation is a bad idea because it punishes people who have set up their GECOS and hostname sanely, but at the same time I do understand that people who just started to use git would be very unhappy to learn that their names were misspelled in GECOS field only after accumulating a couple dozen commits.