From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4151F404 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:14:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729278AbeH2UMG (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:12:06 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:51009 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727484AbeH2UMG (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:12:06 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.129] ([37.201.193.173]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MfmWy-1gFtLH1h6y-00NALj; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:14:23 +0200 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:14:22 +0200 (DST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@gitforwindows.org To: Ulrich Gemkow cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Trivial enhancement: All commands which require an author should accept --author In-Reply-To: <201808282305.29407.ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de> Message-ID: References: <201808282305.29407.ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.1 (DEB 209 2017-03-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:RX1XVMAckdycJ2XkPzZ0ch3PSYR33vNd6YC9qmstRypEmRrZDEX 1zIAUb+ke0saSk2wmxSjCPkLJ/eaIdBRfDZq6VmNxYYoSdbRgIlEf0vXV9kUJtTgKfEWsPA V4DADjb9uWgh4va5OJ0RJWHLMAuIDypvYU2SFaINcEMGAmxNf5CfydnfirLFLE3KVGNW1Y/ kfxnauHbbKRKYpeaSqyKg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:OMoSCrooFII=:vFi2k+doeA6IhDYLOy/ziv S9bMSO6/5JsI39udpRbCb6D1Rz8x1JY4sIkX6wlfJK8wdyKtGHQI6v7MFo8aawIVgR6ZaXTeh 7uY6/Z/ahDb7FMce+JREV4GC97vsNq+ffubAsOZPloTDfKx6nGxLS92mihC8GaqWLkBkv0ulz bptZgLnodPcb0ceauoPl1bKXE5sIejk++rLHI2Yv1uV+4pcsGnggTNIH8TrQkr1zER6IO2bX/ wgQQhzuR93+F8UqutNVO0Rixkh2AN6f7GndPtoZ2mXir5vX/mMPEaBTWWdMp7XXkMB4CfTtTg RJoGPi7tfGnbGhOTcPTYEd5iLf2RD8xruGwcj/jwpxYZzQ12jgQs/K1lAXiY5mRUFbn9X/cst Z6LBEnq2vCoTMSdkdlWTpnfujirtZELs1eB62O+hevP0jK4AxNqdEQV0D9HGpBPwe3ckpC5MK kRD4jiJ56R6IOFaYBm48x/x3c95Oedtc5WxxWWs4snsSpkH25HwdMFMOzKls71b4wyy3bftDj D704RAl+opCwi6d0zfZT1b3Xo5k1eU0pCATGDyET4JxNH51XuT9Q6V1JWUHaQt1b6JaQuDBT/ 3qvOdMRqCrmdFh1lpeI5t15zC6OJgX5jiwmU2hQjpEZHrdKAkE9C0BrX4Nggi1zwAzSn26Bf5 zu/4HG60sun4iOXd18slYvcfQ/rmim52naUb8XXHMFtU01P/sfi4kJ4tLaNwlbbMaGlroHV6q 7puGmgS9jzLMmJQH3DwLsF52vUXy37bdxjt4Mc/K7hRaVdQ0ClkCPCKnUwMHP3JgM/1DiW3yE 6OvfyNA Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Ulrich, On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Ulrich Gemkow wrote: > A trivial enhancement request: > > All commands which require that the author is set (and complain if > it is not set) should accept the option --author. > > At least the command stash does not accept this option. We are using > git version 2.17.1 (Ubuntu 18.04). 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. However, to get you unblocked: what you ask for exists already, in some form: git \ -c user.name="Ulrich Gemkow" \ -c user.email=ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de \ stash Granted, this is not the nicest way to specify it, but you are probably scripting things for environments where you do not really want to configure an author, right? Ciao, Johannes