Re: Trivial enhancement: All commands which require an author should accept --author

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2018, 12:29 UTC
Message-ID: <87r2igca0s.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1808301350340.71@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On Thu, Aug 30 2018, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi Junio,
>
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>> > The `stash` command only incidentally requires that the author is set, as
>> > it calls `git commit` internally (which records the author). As stashes
>> > are intended to be local only, that author information was never meant to
>> > be a vital part of the `stash`.
>> >
>> > I could imagine that an even better enhancement request would ask for `git
>> > stash` to work even if `user.name` is not configured.
>>
>> This would make a good bite-sized microproject, worth marking it as
>> #leftoverbits unless somebody is already working on it ;-)
>
> Right.
>
> What is our currently-favored approach to this, again? Do we have a
> favorite wiki page to list those, or do we have a bug tracker for such
> mini-projects?
>
> Once I know, I will add this, with enough information to get anybody
> interested started.

I believe the "official" way, such as it is, is you just put #leftoverbits in your E-Mail, then search the list archives, e.g. https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=%23leftoverbits

So e.g. I've taken to putting this in my own E-Mails where I spot something I'd like to note as a TODO that I (or someone else) could work on later: https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=%23leftoverbits+f%3Aavarab%40gmail.com