Hi, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > Saying that the user's name is first and a particular punctuation > character SHALL be the standard cut point and everyone not happy with > the results should explicitly set the Git environment variables is the > wrong approach. I disagree. Standard add-user tools use the gecos field in one of two ways: - fullname - fullname,and,some,other,cruft Sure, many organizations bake their own, but I'd argue that the majority doesn't. > AND/OR to include > the what Git thinks the user's name name might be in the commit message > template they're editing (like the file list). I think that's a good idea, as long as people are told how to change it (i.e., an envvar -- NOT by editing the file). -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de - - On those occasions when the angel managed to get his mind into the twentieth century, it always gravitated to 1950. -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Sep 20 00:52:32 2005
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