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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	chutzpah@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config"
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:44:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181207224428.GE73340@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181207222147.GA22590@whubbs1.gaikai.biz>

William Hubbs wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:20:07PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

>> There *is* a way to get what you want that is super easy and will
>> definitely work: if you sit down and do it ;-)
>>
>> Please let us know if you need any additional information before you can
>> start.
>
> Which branch should I work off of in the repo?

"master".

Also, please make sure the documentation (e.g. in
Documentation/config/user.txt) describes when a user would want to set
this option.

See also:
- Documentation/SubmittingPatches
- the DISCUSSION section of "git help format-patch"
- [1]
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#hacking-git

Thanks,
Jonathan

[1] https://github.com/gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget#a-bot-to-serve-as-glue-between-github-pull-requests-and-the-git-mailing-list

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-07 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-06 18:17 enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config" William Hubbs
2018-12-06 18:38 ` Martin Ågren
2018-12-06 19:17   ` William Hubbs
2018-12-06 22:20     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-12-07 22:21       ` William Hubbs
2018-12-07 22:44         ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2018-12-13 19:29           ` William Hubbs
2018-12-13 19:37             ` Jonathan Nieder

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