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Email address from username and hostname preferred over $EMAIL

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Mmkraai@beckman.com <mkraai@beckman.com>
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Jul 5, 2007, 17:57 UTC
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Howdy,

Git prefers to use an email address constructed from the username and hostname to the value of the EMAIL environment variable. I think it should prefer the latter to the former. This problem was introduced by ec563e8153cba89728a271a26c8a94e7a42d8152.

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Matt

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