From: Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:56:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] commit: show interesting ident information in summary
Message-ID: <xuu2hbqm4v1m.fsf@nowhere.com>
In-Reply-To: <5722BD3D-E7C9-47F7-B547-09B14D87DA39@wincent.com>


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