Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

From: Anatolii Borodin <anatoly.borodin@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 20, 2017, 21:57 UTC
Message-ID: <CACNzp2kao+hu6a2nO=gVaLctzoDauB+xyj=cfQLUdNOXTNKQfQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAH5451m58n8mYvt=BC_t2=EAv0HOOdAWrCHCNEPQ3NVjT174nQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Andrew,

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe I am missing something obvious, but if that's the case then
> can't we just do the identity check when trying to make new commits,
> in which case you should be able to pull without setting your
> identity?

`git pull` is `git fetch + git merge / git rebase` in disguise, so we should be ready if git will want to create a merge commit or do a rebase automatically (and potentially create new commits with `Committer` set to the current user). `git fetch` and `git clone` alone, `git branch`, `git checkout` etc don't care about the email (as of 2.14.1), even if `user.useConfigOnly` is set to `true`.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Anatolii Borodin