From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 08:01:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Trick to force setup of a specific configured E-Mail per repo
Message-ID: <xmqqr3gunrxq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160203035648.GA20732@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Just when I dare to think "somebody cannot possibly be relying on this
> arcane behavior", I am proven wrong. :)

My thoughts, exactly.  This is the kind of thing that makes this
project uncomfortably "interesting"; we cannot make improvements
without risking breaking existing users.

> Could we perhaps do this more cleanly with a new config
> option? Like a "user.guessIdent" which defaults to true, but people can
> set to false. And without that, we do not do any automagic at all; we
> get the values from the GIT_COMMITTER_* environment or the
> user.{name,email} config variables, or we die().

That sounds like an excellent and clean way to do this.