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Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] commit: show interesting ident information in summary

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AMAdam Megacz <adam@megacz.com>
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Jan 16, 2010, 02:56 UTC
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Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes:
> Fair enough, but I'm sighing here at the thought of people jumping in  
> and using git commands without even having looked at _any_ of the  
> zillions of "your first 10 minutes with Git" tutorials out there,

I don't think that's what this thread is really about, although helping those people might be a harmless side-effect.

>> and people who have git configured on another machine but are using
>> _this_ machine for the first time).
For the record, this is what I have been burned by several times now.

I'm now stuck with a bunch of repositories I can no longer fix because data blindly yanked out of libnss and never shown to me was then SHA-1 signed for all eternity. It's incredibly frustrating.

Thank you for taking steps to save others from this frustration in the future. I appreciate it.

  - a
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Message 51 of 54 in “edit Author/Date metadata as part of 'git commit' $EDITOR invocation?”
  1. Adam MegaczJan 3, 2010
  2. Sverre RabbelierJan 4, 2010
  3. Adam MegaczJan 4, 2010
  4. Sverre RabbelierJan 4, 2010
  5. David AguilarJan 5, 2010
  6. Nanako ShiraishiJan 5, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2010
  8. Adam MegaczJan 8, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 8, 2010
  10. 1/3 ident.c: remove unused variablesJunio C Hamano, Jan 8, 2010
  11. 2/3 ident.c: check explicit identity for name and email separatelyJunio C Hamano, Jan 8, 2010
  12. Santi BéjarJan 8, 2010
  13. 3/3 ident.c: treat $EMAIL as giving user.email identity explicitlyJunio C Hamano, Jan 8, 2010
  14. Display author and committer after "git commit"Adam Megacz, Jan 11, 2010
  15. Adam MegaczJan 11, 2010
  16. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2010
  17. Adam MegaczJan 12, 2010
  18. Jeff KingJan 12, 2010
  19. Jeff KingJan 12, 2010
  20. Jeff KingJan 12, 2010
  21. 1/3 strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%"Jeff King, Jan 12, 2010
  22. 2/3 strbuf: add strbuf_percentquote_bufJeff King, Jan 12, 2010
  23. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2010
  24. Jeff KingJan 12, 2010
  25. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2010
  26. Jeff KingJan 13, 2010
  27. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2010
  28. Jeff KingJan 13, 2010
  29. 3/3 commit: show interesting ident information in summaryJeff King, Jan 12, 2010
  30. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2010
  31. Jeff KingJan 13, 2010
  32. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2010
  33. Jeff KingJan 13, 2010
  34. Jeff KingJan 13, 2010
  35. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2010
  36. Jeff KingJan 13, 2010
  37. 1/3 strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%"Jeff King, Jan 13, 2010
  38. Chris JohnsenJan 14, 2010
  39. Jeff KingJan 14, 2010
  40. 2/3 strbuf: add strbuf_addbuf_percentquoteJeff King, Jan 13, 2010
  41. 3/3 commit: show interesting ident information in summaryJeff King, Jan 13, 2010
  42. Wincent ColaiutaJan 13, 2010
  43. Jeff KingJan 13, 2010
  44. Wincent ColaiutaJan 13, 2010
  45. Thomas RastJan 14, 2010
  46. Felipe ContrerasJan 14, 2010
  47. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2010
  48. Felipe ContrerasJan 14, 2010
  49. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2010
  50. Felipe ContrerasJan 15, 2010
  51. Adam MegaczJan 16, 2010
  52. Matthieu MoyJan 17, 2010
  53. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2010
  54. Jeff KingJan 17, 2010

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