Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c

2005-04-19 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:45:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:31:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > Here's a small patch to commit-tree.c that does two things: > > > > Gaah, I really was hoping that people wouldn'

Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c

2005-04-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:45:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > But if you really don't like it, and you don't want anyone trying to > > hide anything, at least allow for a proper domainname. On my boxes, > > the domainname doesn't show up at all wi

Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c

2005-04-18 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:45:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > But if you really don't like it, and you don't want anyone trying to > hide anything, at least allow for a proper domainname. On my boxes, > the domainname doesn't show up at all without that patch (just the > getdomainname() part). I'll

Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c

2005-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 18:12 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Ok, then why display it as one? Nobody ever displays it as one as far as I'm aware. That would be something like "mailto:$COMMITTER"; > But I'll wait for Russell to wake up and start quoting the proper EU > privacy laws that he feels causes him

Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c

2005-04-18 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:12:37AM CEST, I got a letter where Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > But I'll wait for Russell to wake up and start quoting the proper EU > privacy laws that he feels causes him to be forced to obfuscate his > email addresses in the changelog commi

Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c

2005-04-18 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:52:30AM +1000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Well Russell has stated that he has to for EU Privacy reasons. And I'd > > like to do it as I don't have a local suse.de hostname for my laptop and > > my employer probably does

Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c

2005-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Well Russell has stated that he has to for EU Privacy reasons. And I'd > like to do it as I don't have a local suse.de hostname for my laptop and > my employer probably doesn't really want my [EMAIL PROTECTED] address > showing up :) Why not? Do

Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c

2005-04-18 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:31:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Here's a small patch to commit-tree.c that does two things: > > Gaah, I really was hoping that people wouldn't feel like they have to lie > about their committer information. > > I

Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c

2005-04-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > Here's a small patch to commit-tree.c that does two things: Gaah, I really was hoping that people wouldn't feel like they have to lie about their committer information. I guess we don't have much choice, but I'm not happy about it. Linus

[PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c

2005-04-18 Thread Greg KH
Here's a small patch to commit-tree.c that does two things: - allows the committer email address and name to be overridden by environment variables (if you don't like the environment variable names I've used (COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME, COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL), feel free