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

Wincent Colaiuta [off-list ref] writes:

Fair enough, but I'm sighing here at the thought of people jumping in  
and using git commands without even having looked at _any_ of the  
zillions of "your first 10 minutes with Git" tutorials out there,  

I don't think that's what this thread is really about, although helping
those people might be a harmless side-effect.

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and people who have git configured on another machine but are using
_this_ machine for the first time).

For the record, this is what I have been burned by several times now.

I'm now stuck with a bunch of repositories I can no longer fix because
data blindly yanked out of libnss and never shown to me was then SHA-1
signed for all eternity.  It's incredibly frustrating.

Thank you for taking steps to save others from this frustration in the
future.  I appreciate it.

  - a