Re: git ident

Jeremy English [off-list ref] writes:

What I don't like is that the error comes up
after I have typed in my comment, then my comment is lost, that's
frustrating.

Sympathizable, but presumably a new user needs to be burned only
once (set them either in $HOME/.profile or .git/config if you
want to use separate identity per project).

....  The other thing is I don't care if the commit is coming
from a valid person, why require this?

Because public projects like the kernel wants to prevent
otherwise good commits from a misconfigured repository to
propagate into them.  We could have a separate per-repository
configuration to say "broken identity is not a problem for this
project", but if the user has to set that in the configuration,
she would be better off setting her identity there.

And making it the default not to require the identity is going
backwards. Our primary focus is to support public, multi-person,
distributed development project.