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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:09:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpny1at28.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1808291653190.71@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:14:22 +0200 (DST)")

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 ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-29 19:09 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 [this message]
2018-08-30 11:51     ` Johannes Schindelin
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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