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Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

From
Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 20, 2017, 12:40 UTC
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On 20 August 2017 at 19:18, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 02:02:09PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
>> > Hasn't this been asked and answered already?
>> >
>> >     https://public-inbox.org/git/CACBZZX4vEOD-4a-eK-uBxmFrb1GLSvJKxHW51whCSbCZdh7amQ@mail.gmail.com/
>>
>> Its 2017. I'd like the tools to work for me instead of me working for the tools.
>
> Ironically, Git used to behave as you requested in 2005. After being
> bombarded with complaints about how Git was too lax in creating commits
> with bogus ident information, we changed it in 2012.

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?

Regards,
Andrew Ardill
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Message 7 of 13 in “Please fix the useless email prompts”
  1. Jeffrey WaltonAug 19, 2017
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2017
  3. Jeffrey WaltonAug 19, 2017
  4. Patryk ObaraAug 19, 2017
  5. Jeff KingAug 20, 2017
  6. Kaartic SivaraamAug 20, 2017
  7. Andrew ArdillAug 20, 2017
  8. Anatolii BorodinAug 20, 2017
  9. Andrew ArdillAug 20, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 20, 2017
  11. Jeff KingAug 23, 2017
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2017
  13. Anatolii BorodinAug 20, 2017

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