From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>,
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, bs.x.ttp@recursor.net, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ident: do not ignore empty config name/email
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:42:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1sujwek2.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1488208102.10235.3.camel@kaarsemaker.net> (Dennis Kaarsemaker's message of "Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:08:22 +0100")
Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> writes:
> On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 23:18 -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:11:11PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> > > So I dunno. I could really go either way on it. Feel free to drop it, or
>> > > even move it into a separate topic to be cooked longer.
>> >
>> > If it were 5 years ago, it would have been different, but I do not
>> > think cooking it longer in 'next' would smoke out breakages in
>> > obscure scripts any longer. Git is used by too many people who have
>> > never seen its source these days.
>>
>> Yeah, I have noticed that, too. I wonder if it would be interesting to
>> cut "weeklies" or something of "master" or even "next" that people could
>> install with a single click.
>>
>> Of course it's not like we have a binary installer in the first place,
>> so I guess that's a prerequisite.
>
> I provide daily[*] snapshots of git's master and next tree as packages
> for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and CentOS on launchpad and SuSE's
> openbuildservice. If there's sufficient interest in this (I know of
> only a few users), I can try to put more effort into this.
That sounds handy for people who do not build from the source
themselves.
Christian, perhaps rev-news can help advertising Dennis's effort to
recruit like-minded souls?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-27 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-03 4:13 possible bug: inconsistent CLI behaviour for empty user.name bs.x.ttp
2017-02-23 8:11 ` Jeff King
2017-02-23 8:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] ident: mark error messages for translation Jeff King
2017-02-23 8:13 ` [PATCH 2/4] ident: handle NULL email when complaining of empty name Jeff King
2017-02-23 8:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] ident: reject all-crud ident name Jeff King
2017-02-23 8:17 ` [PATCH 4/4] ident: do not ignore empty config name/email Jeff King
2017-02-23 20:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-24 1:08 ` Jeff King
2017-02-24 4:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-24 4:18 ` Jeff King
2017-02-27 15:08 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2017-02-27 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-02-28 5:28 ` Christian Couder
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