Re: Trivial enhancement: All commands which require an author should accept --author

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Ulrich,

On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Ulrich Gemkow wrote:

> A trivial enhancement request:
> 
> All commands which require that the author is set (and complain if
> it is not set) should accept the option --author.
> 
> At least the command stash does not accept this option. We are using
> git version 2.17.1 (Ubuntu 18.04).

The `stash` command only incidentally requires that the author is set, as
it calls `git commit` internally (which records the author). As stashes
are intended to be local only, that author information was never meant to
be a vital part of the `stash`.

I could imagine that an even better enhancement request would ask for `git
stash` to work even if `user.name` is not configured.

However, to get you unblocked: what you ask for exists already, in some
form:

	git \
		-c user.name="Ulrich Gemkow" \
		-c user.email=ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de \
		stash

Granted, this is not the nicest way to specify it, but you are probably
scripting things for environments where you do not really want to
configure an author, right?

Ciao,
Johannes