Re: [Cogito] Various bugs

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:

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Yes. That said, we should probably disallow that in git-commit-tree (and 
let the user fix it up some way).

What way? Sometimes you just receive mails from people who have only
email addy in the from line, or you can be importing from some other VCS
where the mapping does not exist and the importers may not deem it
necessary to have it in GIT. Sure, it may be kernel policy to disallow
this, but I wouldn't enforce this for all projects in GIT.

Umm. Having an empty name is _wrong_. It makes things like the shortlogs 
break.

Yes, it has happened in the kernel a few times, but those were bugs, and 
I'd have been very happy if git-write-tree had just aborted on me.

If you don't have any better name than the email/user-name, just use that 
(but at least for the kernel, I'd much prefer a round of "google" first to 
see if something better is available). An _empty_ name is never 
acceptable.

		Linus