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From: Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please fix the useless email prompts
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:40:04 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH5451m58n8mYvt=BC_t2=EAv0HOOdAWrCHCNEPQ3NVjT174nQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170820091807.l23h44gnjajfv5bn@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 20 August 2017 at 19:18, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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-uBxmFrb1GLSvJKxHW51whCSbCZdh7amQ@mail.gmail.com/
>>
>> Its 2017. I'd like the tools to work for me instead of me working for the tools.
>
> 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.

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
identity?

Regards,

Andrew Ardill

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-20 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-19 15:10 Please fix the useless email prompts Jeffrey Walton
2017-08-19 16:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-19 18:02   ` Jeffrey Walton
2017-08-19 19:17     ` Patryk Obara
2017-08-20  9:18     ` Jeff King
2017-08-20 10:19       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-20 12:40       ` Andrew Ardill [this message]
2017-08-20 21:57         ` Anatolii Borodin
2017-08-20 23:32           ` Andrew Ardill
2017-08-20 23:56             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-23 15:35               ` Jeff King
2017-08-23 17:36                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-20 21:50 ` Anatolii Borodin

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