Re: Trivial enhancement: All commands which require an author should accept --author
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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- Aug 30, 2018, 11:51 UTC
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Hi Junio,
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes: > > > The `stash` command only incidentally requires that the author is set, as > > it calls `git commit` internally (which records the author). As stashes > > are intended to be local only, that author information was never meant to > > be a vital part of the `stash`. > > > > I could imagine that an even better enhancement request would ask for `git > > stash` to work even if `user.name` is not configured. > > This would make a good bite-sized microproject, worth marking it as > #leftoverbits unless somebody is already working on it ;-)
Right.
What is our currently-favored approach to this, again? Do we have a favorite wiki page to list those, or do we have a bug tracker for such mini-projects?
Once I know, I will add this, with enough information to get anybody interested started.
Ciao, Dscho