Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] commit: show interesting ident information in summary

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:39:47PM +0100, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

quoted

Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:

    git config --global user.name Your Name
    git config --global user.email you@example.com

If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with:

    git commit --amend --author='Your Name [off-list ref]'

 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

I'll never see this message myself, but I think you could (and
perhaps should) replace almost all of that with:

  Your name and email address were configured automatically.
  See "git config help" for information on setting them explicitly
  or "git commit help" if you wish to amend this commit.

I don't have a huge problem with your wording, except that it needs
s/(\w+) help/help \1/.

Mainly I was trying to hand-hold because not having this information set
up means it may be your first commit, and you are probably a bit
clueless (the exceptions are people who have been using git, but are
seeing this new behavior in their new version, and people who have git
configured on another machine but are using _this_ machine for the first
time).

As far as reducing verbosity goes, I don't think there is much point.
Both of ours are huge and annoying enough to nag you into setting up
your config, so the user is only likely to see it a few times.

But like I said, seeing as I won't see the message its verbosity won't
directly affect me.

I am also in this boat. :)

-Peff