Re: Email address from username and hostname preferred over $EMAIL

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 5, 2007, 21:10 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707051357360.9434@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <OF40A04FE5.AA34B1BF-ON8825730F.005D733A-8825730F.0062A716@beckman.com>

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, mkraai@beckman.com wrote:

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> 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.

It did that very much on purpose. "git_default_email" must take precedence, because that's the one that is filled in by the config file syntax.

So just use

	[user]
		name = ..
		email = ..

and be happy. Only in the absense of that will git start guessing, and yeah, it will not generally use EMAIL, unless it cannot get anything at all from username/hostname.

If you want it to prefer $EMAIL, you'd need to change the initialization of git_default_email, methinks.

		Linus