# Havoc Pennington on git and easygit 2 messages from 2008-04-30 to 2008-05-01. Participants: Avery Pennarun, SZEDER Gábor. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13339 ## Avery Pennarun, 2008-04-30 23:56 Subject: Havoc Pennington on git and easygit Message-ID: <32541b130804301656s3989bab7xcfaa4efd331ca63c@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/32541b130804301656s3989bab7xcfaa4efd331ca63c%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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, 2008-05-01 10:44 Subject: Re: Havoc Pennington on git and easygit Message-ID: <20080501104415.GA16473@elysium.homelinux.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080501104415.GA16473%40elysium.homelinux.org In-Reply-To: <32541b130804301656s3989bab7xcfaa4efd331ca63c@mail.gmail.com> ``` On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:56:40PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: > 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 Date: Sat Apr 28 18:40:28 2007 -0700 Fall back to $EMAIL for missing GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL Regards, Gábor ```