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=-3.9 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 97F931F404 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:08:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729123AbeH3SLH (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:11:07 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:57541 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728949AbeH3SLH (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:11:07 -0400 Received: from MININT-6BKU6QN.europe.corp.microsoft.com ([167.220.196.38]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MKKaI-1ftjSn2L38-001mP0; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:08:35 +0200 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:08:33 +0200 (DST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@gitforwindows.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=86var_Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0_Bjarmason?= cc: Junio C Hamano , Ulrich Gemkow , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Trivial enhancement: All commands which require an author should accept --author In-Reply-To: <87r2igca0s.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <201808282305.29407.ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de> <87r2igca0s.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.1 (DEB 209 2017-03-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323328-924061781-1535638115=:71" X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:qBG6d5DV0l33NcYyDhK3qHXz2GrSs1eMuEQifvIvQdfG7NTU5x+ J+Ax88FRHnbzgxBJjV3yylsGODCQ2kId/XjZT8n/e/QtNtCCboTwZyZubOoNiurKZMK5Jqj vBd2Bs/KNOV+iDZo81EMNBX3qHJCD06p0Y8ZGEe3H7i77iQM8kvX8hlQ7CgvOqUbsd4498e 7Z0Nex6g7zvk/Ar2gw6Sg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:Hi1OZrqfHoM=:8pMD9X1RDS+iGfs6Xu3yj5 YYDH/LfNI9VQLe/yg04PfGDLRFaojrGRULXHzSldvJ37vsQQA7tkXOWEAiHE0UoFoaHN/n+ev QOiYxfWV2St6CJnxopnZUBn4Lq09XHliDFEKZI3GBxilrbceTSV5diQlgvtBJrftM8rMFFBqz SbJCxcgbY7zemydf4RGeN/cJS3A3rItTQDBA0F9UvIV/Z3TOPb2diizdIMuKo20rcbtp+BqIY KtZJZUyKeZq41qYQHZcS0alf1rpoV3asNtNoNIg1ZB20arVWhxIfD2lkKtT7s0RelkQvosS1s qUE9cf5LeP4xmnmw1vgDwopeG5SizqF20wudzZ2rXCIL2kCYpoEqQmedEjJG+C5bLwMDVBXrQ zNplxLiFvYLhBRznbi1PZTqBo0kDvuTsmPbicKY/91Q/Rau0efJK40BkR9PNr8p+juaLHAV9j o9RLkBqgna0/LAIgFmispjC45IRS6ErNEzYcKkQsXJPkcgA6fdVKNX9Irc6/prgj9EuPyAcc2 rYXj0bzzFWMuNsuK3vkWW+QrDkaNYNpkcHYICTf0zchnKdHtEZrlGA2IiQUlg5XNdFBoPXRb0 EbFirBadXtU70YQWsjv8swaQTQEfmyYVUm33NT9GPoRT8zAkmdxbgBF9GkGGA1EeA0an7kZrZ ihceSwVmkbM0u4WJdj1YonKo3L1lLqy7XCj0Ufm+K0bUqVGkARzYAdFAuea86Y2bRlWkn/bvG v/b15kOPTwyVNc1Icv5WVPMheZrKA7C2Uz76fTqMkFjCzHbaNFNnZeQC9bmFOD2W9lIoJKr5J T99MpX8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-924061781-1535638115=:71 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Hi =C3=86var, On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30 2018, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >=20 > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> Johannes Schindelin writes: > >> > >> > The `stash` command only incidentally requires that the author is se= t, as > >> > it calls `git commit` internally (which records the author). As stas= hes > >> > are intended to be local only, that author information was never mea= nt to > >> > be a vital part of the `stash`. > >> > > >> > I could imagine that an even better enhancement request would ask fo= r `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 ;-) > > > > Right. > > > > What is our currently-favored approach to this, again? Do we have a > > favorite wiki page to list those, or do we have a bug tracker for such > > mini-projects? > > > > Once I know, I will add this, with enough information to get anybody > > interested started. >=20 > I believe the "official" way, such as it is, is you just put > #leftoverbits in your E-Mail, then search the list archives, > e.g. https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=3D%23leftoverbits >=20 > So e.g. I've taken to putting this in my own E-Mails where I spot > something I'd like to note as a TODO that I (or someone else) could work > on later: > https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=3D%23leftoverbits+f%3Aavarab%40gmail.com That is a poor way to list the current micro-projects, as it is totally non-obvious to the casual interested person which projects are still relevant, and which ones have been addressed already. In a bug tracker, you can at least add a comment stating that something has been addressed, or made a lot easier by another topic. In a mailing list archive, those mails are immutable, and you cannot update squat. Ciao, Johannes --8323328-924061781-1535638115=:71--