From: Taylor Braun-Jones <taylor@braun-jones.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:20:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] git-clone fails when current user is not in /etc/passwd
Message-ID: <CAKfKJYvXfW+hOFcC=TUybLhkVbRm9dznaTAiHCO+RM14nGPbDw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151210213228.GB29055@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> So here's my solution, which instead carries the "is it bogus" flag
> along with the default strings.
>
>   [1/3]: ident: make xgetpwuid_self() a static local helper
>   [2/3]: ident: keep a flag for bogus default_email
>   [3/3]: ident: loosen getpwuid error in non-strict mode

1 definitely makes sense to me. As a newcomer to the git code base, I
was wondering why it wasn't this way already.

2 and 3 solve my original problem - thanks!

Taylor