Havoc Pennington on git and easygit

Avery Pennarun· Apr 30, 2008, 23:56 UTC · lore

For those that don't follow Havoc's postings, this one about git is quite well thought out:

http://log.ometer.com/2008-04.html#29

His comments very much parallel my own learning experience and others here, except that he's more stubborn about learning git's internals than I was.

Have fun,

Avery

SZEDER Gábor· May 1, 2008, 10:44 UTC · re: Avery Pennarun · lore

Re: Havoc Pennington on git and easygit

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:56:40PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:

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> For those that don't follow Havoc's postings, this one about git is
> quite well thought out:
> 
> http://log.ometer.com/2008-04.html#29
> 
> His comments very much parallel my own learning experience and others
> here, except that he's more stubborn about learning git's internals
> than I was.

Makes me wonder which git version is he using:

    "Use EMAIL and GECOS
    
    A minor thing, but if you just start using git, it puts garbage in
    the Author field. Every other program uses the EMAIL environment
    variable and your UNIX account information. That is a good
    default. If people want to override it via config option, then let
    them, but don't require configuration to get started."

Now this commit is more than a year old:

commit 28a94f885a735e7474357698ec384de24d526620
Author: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 28 18:40:28 2007 -0700

    Fall back to $EMAIL for missing GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and
    GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL

Regards, Gábor