Re: [PATCH] Improved hint on how to set identity

Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref] writes:

maybe... but my feeling is that the majority of people has only
a single identity. Having multiple identities is, in my opinion,
advanced usage, and should be mentioned after the common case.

My point was that there is nothing that backs up that your
feeling of the majority is correct.  I personally do not have
much preference either way and I certainly do not claim that I
have better feel of what the majority wants than you do.  I just
want to see something more concrete than "I think majority wants
this" to change what has been there for some time.

I remember when I started, I didn't immediately recognize that
I need to set my identity (or how to do it). Therefore I ended
up with different identities on different machines,...

You might want to search the mailing list archive for message
from Linus why he thinks having different per machine identity
for committer field is a good thing.  People have different
taste and needs.

On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:22 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

maybe... but my feeling is that the majority of people has only
a single identity. Having multiple identities is, in my opinion,
advanced usage, and should be mentioned after the common case.

My point was that there is nothing that backs up that your
feeling of the majority is correct.  I personally do not have
much preference either way and I certainly do not claim that I
have better feel of what the majority wants than you do.  I just
want to see something more concrete than "I think majority wants
this" to change what has been there for some time.

I see your point. Yet I do not understand, why people might want
to have _no_ default identity. I think everyone should have a
default identity. That is what my patch does: tell the user to
setup a default account identity first. Per repository identities
can be set up later.

	Steffen