Re: [PATCH] Add committer and author names to top of COMMIT_EDITMSG.

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

This is obviously not 1.5.4 material, so I haven't given it that much
thought either. But perhaps Stephen's "author message" should simply
trigger any time the author is pulled from gecos? I suppose that would
annoy people who use this feature all the time, but they can silence the
"warning" with a simple git-config.

Well, we could certainly do that.

But I am not entirely happy with the idea of having to make the
default silly and inconvenient, only because otherwise new
people who did not even bother to read and follow the VERY FIRST
subsection of the tutorial that tells them that the first thing
to do is to use user.name and user.email would not notice their
problems, and experts know enough to squelch that broken
default.  Middle level people (and newbies will quickly become
one of them) will be inconvenienced even though they followed
the tutorial's instruction, until they find the configuration
variable to turn that silly AUTHOR output off.