Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

tytso@mit.edu writes:

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 05:00:13PM +0200, Stefan Beller wrote:

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I don't even think we need to query the user to fill out all of the
fields.  We can prepopulate a lot of the fields (name, e-mail address,
etc.) from OS specific defaults that are available on most systems ---
specifically, the default values we would use the name and e-mail
address are not specified in a config file.

Please don't. Or you end up again with Commiters like sb@localhost,
sbeller@(None) or alike. I mean it's just one question once you setup
a new computer, so I'd really like to see that question and then
answer myself (at university/employer I might put in another email
address than at home anyway, and I'm sure my boxes have no sane
defaults)

But that's no worse than what we have today.

It is. Currently, Git displays a very big and scary warning when you use
commit and Git had to guess your identity.

If you explicitly fill-in the config file with guessed values, then Git
will have no way to know if the config values are real or guessed.

OTOH, a prompt with a default value (i.e "type 'return' to get the
default") would make sense.

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Matthieu Moy
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