Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

From: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2014, 17:46 UTC
Message-ID: <CALbm-Ea4oAQ+JsYu6Zo06ONMbtp8AhgFqDC485BRKsM36EVQXw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140424154717.GB7531@thunk.org>

I may have missunderstood.

So today you cannot commit if you don't provide an email address (usually the first time you try to commit, git asks to "git config --global author.email=<you@mail.here>"), if I remember correctly, so there is definitely a valid (i.e. user approved) email address.

2014-04-24 17:47 GMT+02:00  <tytso@mit.edu>:

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> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 05:00:13PM +0200, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> > 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)
>
> But that's no worse than what we have today.  What if we print what
> the defaults were, which might help encourage the user to actually run
> the "git config -e" command?
>
>                                         - Ted