Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

Jeff King writes: > If we could reliably tell the difference between those two cases, it > might be worth doing the up-front check. But I'm not sure we can do that > without declaring that people in the ff-only case should be using a > different workflow (e.g., fetch + "reset

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 04:56:50PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andrew Ardill writes: > > > Is there any reason `git pull` can't delay that check until the point > > where it actually tries to create a new commit? It's fair enough to > > error if a new commit needs to

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

Andrew Ardill writes: > Is there any reason `git pull` can't delay that check until the point > where it actually tries to create a new commit? It's fair enough to > error if a new commit needs to be made, and there is no user > configured, but for the use cases

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

Hi Anatoli, On 21 August 2017 at 07:57, Anatolii Borodin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Andrew Ardill > wrote: >> Maybe I am missing something obvious, but if that's the case then >> can't we just do the identity check when trying

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

Hi Andrew, On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Andrew Ardill wrote: > Maybe I am missing something obvious, but if that's the case then > can't we just do the identity check when trying to make new commits, > in which case you should be able to pull without setting your >

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

Hi Jeffrey, On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > *** Please tell me who you are. Which version of git do you use? Do you have user.useConfigOnly set to true anywhere in the config files? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Anatolii Borodin

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

On 20 August 2017 at 19:18, Jeff King wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 02:02:09PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> > Hasn't this been asked and answered already? >> > >> > >> > https://public-inbox.org/git/cacbzzx4veod-4a-ek-ubxmfrb1glsvjkxhw51whcsbczdh7...@mail.gmail.com/ >>

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

On Sun, 2017-08-20 at 05:18 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Ironically, Git used to behave as you requested in 2005. After being > bombarded with complaints about how Git was too lax in creating commits > with bogus ident information, we changed it in 2012. So I don't think > "it's 2017" carries any

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 02:02:09PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hasn't this been asked and answered already? > > > > > > https://public-inbox.org/git/cacbzzx4veod-4a-ek-ubxmfrb1glsvjkxhw51whcsbczdh7...@mail.gmail.com/ > > Its 2017. I'd like the tools to work for me instead of me working

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

Why you can't just set username as name and username@hostname as mail? You'll do it once and it will be preserved for future. If you use various accounts for testing, use --system flag for config to store the values in /etc. If you don't want to modify the environment, use --local (or no flag) to

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeffrey Walton writes: > >> Is it possible to fix the issue shown below? >> >> I'm on a test machine. All I do is update to the latest code, build >> the library and run the self tests. >> >> The

Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

Jeffrey Walton writes: > Is it possible to fix the issue shown below? > > I'm on a test machine. All I do is update to the latest code, build > the library and run the self tests. > > The test user account does not have a name and does not have an email > address. There's