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Re: Trivial enhancement: All commands which require an author should accept --author

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 29, 2018, 19:09 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> 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 ;-)

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  1. Ulrich GemkowAug 28, 2018
  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 29, 2018
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 29, 2018
  4. Johannes SchindelinAug 30, 2018
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 30, 2018
  6. Johannes SchindelinAug 30, 2018
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 3, 2018
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2018
  9. Jonathan NiederSep 4, 2018

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