Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, James Denholm <nod.helm@gmail.com>,
	David Lang <david@lang.hm>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What is missing from Git v2.0
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:35:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGK7Mr5aR36X3x=jcsRWyuo9cS0qGud114gSJECPW0rOWqUFKw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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> > I don't even think we need to query the user to fill out all of the
> > fields.  We can prepopulate a lot of the fields (name, e-mail address,
> > etc.) from OS specific defaults that are available on most systems ---
> > specifically, the default values we would use the name and e-mail
> > address are not specified in a config file.
>
> Please don't. Or you end up again with Commiters like sb@localhost,
> sbeller@(None) or alike. I mean it's just one question once you setup
> a new computer, so I'd really like to see that question and then
> answer myself (at university/employer I might put in another email
> address than at home anyway, and I'm sure my boxes have no sane
> defaults)

Yes, try to guess a good default but let the user change it if he
wants to, and if he presses enter the default is used. It's not a big
deal to have to press enter a few times the first time you use git.

That or make a new "git setup" command which interactively sets up
your .gitconfig.

Philippe