Re: Git snafu

[Jim Porter]

On 4/25/2023 5:38 AM, Po Lu wrote:
> When trying to commit from a brand new machine installed at my
> organization, I made a mistake.  I configured the git username and
> e-mail as root, and not as my user.
>
> So now there is a commit from the default Git username on emacs.git.  Is
> there a way to rectify this mistake?

It won't rectify it, but we could prevent this in the future with a Git 
hook (and one that's significantly simpler than the one I added for 
change log entries).

I see that the commit author is "Your Name <you@example.com>". That's 
easy enough to block; are there any other author addresses that we 
should forbid? I seem to recall that Git sometimes authors commits as 
"local-user@local-hostname", which isn't a useful email address for the 
global internet either.