Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 19, 2005, 02:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504181949540.15725@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050419014738.GA13602@taniwha.stupidest.org>

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:45:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
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> > But if you really don't like it, and you don't want anyone trying to
> > hide anything, at least allow for a proper domainname.  On my boxes,
> > the domainname doesn't show up at all without that patch (just the
> > getdomainname() part).  I'll split it out if you want.
> 
> there are plenty of times you need this... internal domain names
> usually have the MTA rewrite addresses as needed, i don't see how this
> is all the different
> 
> we have internal/private state that's not globally useful and need to
> replace it with something that is, how else could we do this?

Guys, I ended up applying Greg's patch, since it's clear that many people want to do this. So ..

		Linus