Re: [PATCH 5/6] Git.pm: teach "ident" to query explicitness

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:12:13AM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> > --- a/perl/Git.pm
> > +++ b/perl/Git.pm
> > @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ sub remote_refs {
> >  }
> >  
> >  
> > -=item ident ( TYPE | IDENTSTR )
> > +=item ident ( TYPE | IDENTSTR [, options] )
> >  
> >  =item ident_person ( TYPE | IDENTSTR | IDENTARRAY )
> >  
> > @@ -750,6 +750,10 @@ and either returns it as a scalar string or as an array with the fields parsed.
> >  Alternatively, it can take a prepared ident string (e.g. from the commit
> >  object) and just parse it.
> >  
> > +If the C<explicit> option is set to 1, the returned array will contain an
> > +additional boolean specifying whether the ident was configure explicitly by the
> > +user.
> 
> s/configure/configured/
> 
> I'd suggest adding "See GIT_COMMITTER_EXPLICIT in git-var(1) for
> details" to make the semantics crystal clear.  What do you think?

Good suggestion. Thanks.

-Peff