From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:56:38 GMT Subject: Re: [Cogito] Various bugs Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060207164946.GN31278@pasky.or.cz> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > Yes. That said, we should probably disallow that in git-commit-tree (and > > let the user fix it up some way). > > What way? Sometimes you just receive mails from people who have only > email addy in the from line, or you can be importing from some other VCS > where the mapping does not exist and the importers may not deem it > necessary to have it in GIT. Sure, it may be kernel policy to disallow > this, but I wouldn't enforce this for all projects in GIT. Umm. Having an empty name is _wrong_. It makes things like the shortlogs break. Yes, it has happened in the kernel a few times, but those were bugs, and I'd have been very happy if git-write-tree had just aborted on me. If you don't have any better name than the email/user-name, just use that (but at least for the kernel, I'd much prefer a round of "google" first to see if something better is available). An _empty_ name is never acceptable. Linus