Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > Just when I dare to think "somebody cannot possibly be relying on this > arcane behavior", I am proven wrong. :)
My thoughts, exactly. This is the kind of thing that makes this project uncomfortably "interesting"; we cannot make improvements without risking breaking existing users. > Could we perhaps do this more cleanly with a new config > option? Like a "user.guessIdent" which defaults to true, but people can > set to false. And without that, we do not do any automagic at all; we > get the values from the GIT_COMMITTER_* environment or the > user.{name,email} config variables, or we die(). That sounds like an excellent and clean way to do this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html