Re: [PATCH 4/4] ident: do not ignore empty config name/email

> Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 23:18 -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:11:11PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>
>>> > > So I dunno. I could really go either way on it. Feel free to drop it, or
>>> > > even move it into a separate topic to be cooked longer.
>>> >
>>> > If it were 5 years ago, it would have been different, but I do not
>>> > think cooking it longer in 'next' would smoke out breakages in
>>> > obscure scripts any longer.  Git is used by too many people who have
>>> > never seen its source these days.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I have noticed that, too. I wonder if it would be interesting to
>>> cut "weeklies" or something of "master" or even "next" that people could
>>> install with a single click.
>>>
>>> Of course it's not like we have a binary installer in the first place,
>>> so I guess that's a prerequisite.
>>
>> I provide daily[*] snapshots of git's master and next tree as packages
>> for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and CentOS on launchpad and SuSE's
>> openbuildservice. If there's sufficient interest in this (I know of
>> only a few users), I can try to put more effort into this.
>
> That sounds handy for people who do not build from the source
> themselves.
>
> Christian, perhaps rev-news can help advertising Dennis's effort to
> recruit like-minded souls?