Re: [PATCH 4/3] am, sequencer: stop parsing our own committer ident

> By the way, I wondered why we needed to do this parsing at all. The
> patch below does this in a much simpler way. It's a little bit ugly, I
> think, because we have to call getenv() ourselves. But that's the way
> fmt_ident() has always worked. We could probably improve that now that
> it takes a whose_ident flag (before that, it had no idea if we wanted
> author or committer ident).
>
> This is on top of the fixes (but we'd perhaps just want to do those on
> 'maint' as the minimal fix).