Re: Git snafu

[Jim Porter]

On 4/25/2023 1:37 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> 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).

In fact, we can do something even simpler than that: just set the config 
option "user.useConfigOnly" to true. See attached. Does this look ok to 
everyone?

0001-autogen.sh-Don-t-guess-the-user-s-name-email-when-co.patch
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