From: Matthias Urlichs Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:47:54 GMT Subject: Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <432ECB92.5000505@gmail.com> Hi, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > Saying that the user's name is first and a particular punctuation > character SHALL be the standard cut point and everyone not happy with > the results should explicitly set the Git environment variables is the > wrong approach. I disagree. Standard add-user tools use the gecos field in one of two ways: - fullname - fullname,and,some,other,cruft Sure, many organizations bake their own, but I'd argue that the majority doesn't. > AND/OR to include > the what Git thinks the user's name name might be in the commit message > template they're editing (like the file list). I think that's a good idea, as long as people are told how to change it (i.e., an envvar -- NOT by editing the file). -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de - - On those occasions when the angel managed to get his mind into the twentieth century, it always gravitated to 1950. -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)