From b555bbef59bd21d30469120b56d6a22fe35885bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://nullroute.eu.org/~grawity/" Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 13:47:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment --- ...comment_2_8c9e5291ceb257f3a938af0ad967c5d7._comment | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/design/assistant/blog/day_292__bugfixes/comment_2_8c9e5291ceb257f3a938af0ad967c5d7._comment diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_292__bugfixes/comment_2_8c9e5291ceb257f3a938af0ad967c5d7._comment b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_292__bugfixes/comment_2_8c9e5291ceb257f3a938af0ad967c5d7._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..adb161fd09 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_292__bugfixes/comment_2_8c9e5291ceb257f3a938af0ad967c5d7._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://nullroute.eu.org/~grawity/" + nickname="Mantas" + subject="comment 2" + date="2013-07-09T13:47:20Z" + content=""" +git **used to** use the hostname as-is, but that didn't work out well – many people just kept on committing as `joeyh@kremvax.(none)`, which doesn't make for a good email address or a globally-unique identifier (sometimes by being lazy; sometimes by forgetting to carry their Git config over to a new machine). + +The stricter check was implemented in [8c5b1ae1](https://github.com/gitster/git/commit/8c5b1ae1b26a7512eb29e75391b8b24c0d0439e7) for git v1.8.3. Setting `$EMAIL` or running `git -c user.email=foo@bar` should override it. +"""]]