On Linux, we use the gecos information to come up with a sensible user name/email. On Windows, there is no gecos. But there is something comparable, and with these patches, we use it.
This has been carried in Git for Windows for three years, and is considered mature. Johannes Schindelin (3): getpwuid(mingw): initialize the structure only once getpwuid(mingw): provide a better default for the user name mingw: use domain information for default email compat/mingw.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ compat/mingw.h | 2 ++ git-compat-util.h | 4 ++++ ident.c | 3 +++ 4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) base-commit: 5a0cc8aca797dbd7d2be3b67458ff880ed45cddf Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tags/pr-45%2Fdscho%2Fdefault-ident-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-45/dscho/default-ident-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/45 -- gitgitgadget
