From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 4/8] ident: keep separate "explicit" flags for author and committer
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:04:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121115080457.GD8429@elie.Belkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121115003413.GD17819@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> 1. GIT_COMMITTER_* is set explicitly, but we fallback for
> GIT_AUTHOR. We claim the ident is explicit, even though
> the author is not.
>
> 2. GIT_AUTHOR_* is set and we ask for author ident, but
> not committer ident. We will claim the ident is
> implicit, even though it is explicit.
>
> This patch uses two variables instead of one, updates both
> when we set the "fallback" values, and updates them
> individually when we read from the environment.
Nice problem description. The fixed behavior makes sense to me, for
what it's worth.
Not about this patch, but: in case (1), shouldn't the author fall
back to $GIT_COMMITER_NAME?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-15 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-11 17:06 [PATCH] send-email: add proper default sender Felipe Contreras
2012-11-11 17:12 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-11-11 18:06 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-12 23:35 ` Jeff King
2012-11-12 23:42 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-13 0:02 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 0:06 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 0:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-13 0:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-13 3:27 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 3:40 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 3:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-13 4:01 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 6:42 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-13 7:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-13 7:47 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 9:06 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-13 16:48 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 16:49 ` [PATCH 1/6] ident: make user_ident_explicitly_given private Jeff King
2012-11-14 16:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-14 19:11 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 16:52 ` [PATCH 2/6] ident: keep separate "explicit" flags for author and committer Jeff King
2012-11-13 16:52 ` [PATCH 3/6] var: accept multiple variables on the command line Jeff King
2012-11-14 17:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-14 19:26 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 16:53 ` [PATCH 4/6] var: provide explicit/implicit ident information Jeff King
2012-11-14 17:06 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-14 19:53 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 16:53 ` [PATCH 5/6] Git.pm: teach "ident" to query explicitness Jeff King
[not found] ` <20121113172300.GA16241@ftbfs.org>
2012-11-13 17:25 ` Jeff King
2012-11-14 17:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-14 19:54 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 16:53 ` [PATCH 6/6] send-email: do not prompt for explicit repo ident Jeff King
2012-11-14 17:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-14 20:05 ` Jeff King
2012-11-14 20:26 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 20:35 ` [PATCH] send-email: add proper default sender Felipe Contreras
2012-11-15 0:07 ` Jeff King
2012-11-15 1:41 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-15 1:50 ` Jeff King
2012-11-15 2:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-15 0:30 ` [PATCHv2 0/8] loosening "sender" prompt in send-email Jeff King
2012-11-15 0:33 ` [PATCHv2 1/8] test-lib: allow negation of prerequisites Jeff King
2012-11-15 7:46 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-15 16:42 ` Jeff King
2012-11-15 16:49 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-15 0:33 ` [PATCHv2 2/8] t7502: factor out autoident prerequisite Jeff King
2012-11-15 7:49 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-15 0:34 ` [PATCHv2 3/8] ident: make user_ident_explicitly_given static Jeff King
2012-11-15 7:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-15 0:34 ` [PATCHv2 4/8] ident: keep separate "explicit" flags for author and committer Jeff King
2012-11-15 8:04 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-11-15 0:35 ` [PATCHv2 5/8] var: accept multiple variables on the command line Jeff King
2012-11-15 8:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-15 0:35 ` [PATCHv2 6/8] var: provide explicit/implicit ident information Jeff King
2012-11-15 0:36 ` [PATCHv2 7/8] Git.pm: teach "ident" to query explicitness Jeff King
2012-11-15 8:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-15 0:36 ` [PATCHv2 8/8] send-email: do not prompt for explicit repo ident Jeff King
2012-11-15 2:08 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-15 8:33 ` Jeff King
2012-11-15 10:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-15 10:43 ` Jeff King
2012-11-15 11:13 ` Jeff King
2012-11-15 11:50 ` Jeff King
2012-11-15 16:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-15 17:28 ` Jeff King
2012-11-16 5:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-16 19:08 ` Jeff King
2012-11-16 19:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-16 20:11 ` Jeff King
2012-11-16 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-15 8:23 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-11-13 16:13 ` [PATCH] send-email: add proper default sender Junio C Hamano
2012-11-13 17:14 ` Jeff King
2012-11-13 17:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-13 17:20 ` Erik Faye-Lund
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