Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 25, 2014, 07:35 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGK7Mr5aR36X3x=jcsRWyuo9cS0qGud114gSJECPW0rOWqUFKw@mail.gmail.com>
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> > I don't even think we need to query the user to fill out all of the
> > fields.  We can prepopulate a lot of the fields (name, e-mail address,
> > etc.) from OS specific defaults that are available on most systems ---
> > specifically, the default values we would use the name and e-mail
> > address are not specified in a config file.
>
> Please don't. Or you end up again with Commiters like sb@localhost,
> sbeller@(None) or alike. I mean it's just one question once you setup
> a new computer, so I'd really like to see that question and then
> answer myself (at university/employer I might put in another email
> address than at home anyway, and I'm sure my boxes have no sane
> defaults)

Yes, try to guess a good default but let the user change it if he wants to, and if he presses enter the default is used. It's not a big deal to have to press enter a few times the first time you use git.

That or make a new "git setup" command which interactively sets up your .gitconfig.

Philippe