From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 8/8] send-email: do not prompt for explicit repo ident
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:56:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvcd6954q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121115111334.GA1879@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:13:47 -0800")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I think a much more compelling argument/commit message for your
> suggested patch would be:
>
> We currently prompt the user for the "From" address. This is an
> inconvenience in the common case that the user has configured their
> identity in the environment, but is meant as a safety check for when
> git falls back to an implicitly generated identity (which may or may
> not be valid).
>
> That safety check is not really necessary, though, as by default
> send-email will prompt the user for a final confirmation before
> sending out any message. The likelihood that a user has both bothered
> to turn off this default _and_ not configured any identity (nor
> checked that the automatic identity is valid) is rather low.
This somehow reminds me of the first paragraph of f20f387 (commit:
check committer identity more strictly, 2012-07-23).
I never use "send-email driving format-patch" workflow myself, but I
suspect there are people among who do so who are using --compose to
do the cover letter of their series. Does the "confirmation as the
last step" help them, or would they have to retype their message?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-15 16:56 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
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 [this message]
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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