On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Jeff King <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 06:06:50PM +0100, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> There's no point in asking this over and over if the user already
>> properly configured his/her name and email.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>
>> I got really tired of 'git send-email' always asking me from which address
>> to send mails... that's already configured.
>
> It should be defaulting to your regular git ident, and you just have to
> hit enter, right?
Yes.
> I think it's probably reasonable to skip that "enter" in most cases. But
> I'm not sure why we ever asked in the first place. What do people input
> there if they are not taking the default?
Beats me.
> Why not use Git::ident_person() here? It saves some code, and would also
> respect environment variables. Or better yet...
I assume there was a reason why that code was asking for input;
precisely because it would use the environment variables. For some
reason the user might have exported GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, or maybe EMAIL
is not right, or the full name config.
OTOH user.name/.email configurations come clearly from the user.
>> my $prompting = 0;
>> if (!defined $sender) {
>> $sender = $repoauthor || $repocommitter || '';
>
> Why not just use $repoauthor or $repocommitter, as the prompt default
> already does?
See above.
Cheers.
--
Felipe Contreras
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