Re: [PATCH 0/3] git-clone fails when current user is not in /etc/passwd

> I don't think we want to pass down a "be strict" flag to the low-level
> code filling in default_{name,email}. We might be strict in one call,
> and non-strict in another within the same program. Worse, we actually
> call ident_default_name() even when we don't actually want the name (we
> could fix that, too, but it just adds more cases to the code).
>
> So here's my solution, which instead carries the "is it bogus" flag
> along with the default strings.
>
>   [1/3]: ident: make xgetpwuid_self() a static local helper
>   [2/3]: ident: keep a flag for bogus default_email
>   [3/3]: ident: loosen getpwuid error in non-strict mode