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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: bs.x.ttp@recursor.net, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ident: do not ignore empty config name/email
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 23:18:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170224041807.5g3yogfnsoqegqkl@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlgsw5iu8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

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

> > 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.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-24  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-03  4:13 possible bug: inconsistent CLI behaviour for empty user.name bs.x.ttp
2017-02-23  8:11 ` Jeff King
2017-02-23  8:12   ` [PATCH 1/4] ident: mark error messages for translation Jeff King
2017-02-23  8:13   ` [PATCH 2/4] ident: handle NULL email when complaining of empty name Jeff King
2017-02-23  8:15   ` [PATCH 3/4] ident: reject all-crud ident name Jeff King
2017-02-23  8:17   ` [PATCH 4/4] ident: do not ignore empty config name/email Jeff King
2017-02-23 20:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-24  1:08       ` Jeff King
2017-02-24  4:11         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-24  4:18           ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-02-27 15:08             ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2017-02-27 20:42               ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-28  5:28                 ` Christian Couder

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