From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Ulrich Gemkow <ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trivial enhancement: All commands which require an author should accept --author
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:51:38 +0200 (DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1808301350340.71@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpny1at28.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
Hi Junio,
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> This would make a good bite-sized microproject, worth marking it as
> #leftoverbits unless somebody is already working on it ;-)
Right.
What is our currently-favored approach to this, again? Do we have a
favorite wiki page to list those, or do we have a bug tracker for such
mini-projects?
Once I know, I will add this, with enough information to get anybody
interested started.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-30 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-28 21:05 Trivial enhancement: All commands which require an author should accept --author Ulrich Gemkow
2018-08-29 16:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-08-29 19:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-30 11:51 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2018-08-30 12:29 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-30 14:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-09-03 13:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-30 14:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-04 17:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
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