From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 23:50:40 GMT
Subject: Re: How to avoid "Please tell me who you are..."?
Message-ID: <xmqqh8zyx833.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX4vEOD-4a-eK-uBxmFrb1GLSvJKxHW51whCSbCZdh7amQ@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Is there no switch? Its the most efficient way to accomplish the task.
>>
>> This is a safety to help normal human users from hurting themselves,
>> and it does not make any sense to have "I have no name, so record
>> garbage, please" option, switch or setting that is different from
>> "Here is the name I want you to use when recording things".
>>
>> The switch _is_ to set the names with whatever standard way.
>
> Presumably OP doesn't want to mess with the env for whatever reason,
> in that case:
>
>     git -c user.name=Nobody -c user.email=nobody@example.com
> cherry-pick <commit>

Exactly.  That is what I meant as one of the "whatever standard
way".