Re: [PATCH 4/4] ident: do not ignore empty config name/email

Dennis Kaarsemaker [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 23:18 -0500, Jeff King wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:11:11PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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So I dunno. I could really go either way on it. Feel free to drop it, or
even move it into a separate topic to be cooked longer.

If it were 5 years ago, it would have been different, but I do not
think cooking it longer in 'next' would smoke out breakages in
obscure scripts any longer.  Git is used by too many people who have
never seen its source these days.

Yeah, I have noticed that, too. I wonder if it would be interesting to
cut "weeklies" or something of "master" or even "next" that people could
install with a single click.

Of course it's not like we have a binary installer in the first place,
so I guess that's a prerequisite.

I provide daily[*] snapshots of git's master and next tree as packages
for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and CentOS on launchpad and SuSE's
openbuildservice. If there's sufficient interest in this (I know of
only a few users), I can try to put more effort into this.

That sounds handy for people who do not build from the source
themselves.

Christian, perhaps rev-news can help advertising Dennis's effort to
recruit like-minded souls?