On 11/11/06, Karl Hasselström [off-list ref] wrote:

Is there any particular reason to have the author and committer names
in ~/.stgitrc? Simply taking them from the same place git does would
probably be a usability enhancement (unless they're specified on the
command line, of course).

At the time I added these to .stgitrc, the only place git was taking
them from was the environment variables and I wanted to put them in a
single place. I also didn't like the idea of having the committer
e-mail address be some username@local-machine as I don't think the
name of the machine where I create patches is relevant. I also define
the committer/author per repository in the .git/stgitrc file (i.e. I
use @arm.com for Linux patches and @gmail.com for StGIT).

I use StGIT almost exclusively, even in "maintainer" mode and I would
like not to spread the configuration options over many files. It is on
my todo list to use the same configuration file as git (with a [stgit]
section) since it has a format that should be understood by the Python
config module.

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