---- On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:38:04 -0600 Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote
----
> This hook was implemented in the first place to ensure that people had
> correctly setup Git on their local machine.
> On some versions of Git (maybe all?) it will automatically use the local
> user account name as the name.
> This leads to people committing as "me", "user" and "nobody" without meaning
> to, but which still leads to a situation in which the metadata of a commit
> has ended up being useless.
> I'd rather maintain a small list of exceptions for those who do have names
> without a space in them to ensure that for the vast majority of our users do
> correctly get informed they need to fix their local setup.
> Cheers,Ben
The only people who have commit access have been specifically granted this
privilege. I think it's fair to say that all of them have git set up correctly
on their machines by the time they've been approved for commit access. More
casual contributors who exhibit this issue always have someone else to push the
commit for them, and that person is already responsible for verifying their
authorship info.
Nate
