Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

quoted text
> Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
> ---
>
> http://marc.info/?l=git&m=120385776127178&w=2:
>> >  And that made me wonder if it wouldn't be worth, actually, to have
>> > git config user.name and git config user.email return the "magic" values
>> > gotten from guessing in ident.c when no value is in the config. That would
>> > allow scripts, which have no other simple means to get the user name and
>> > email, to have the same feature as builtins.
>>
>> Or perhaps use "git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT"?
>
> The only problem I see with this approach is that lots of uses of
> GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT require regex'ing the output to remove the date
> (see git-am, old git-commit and git-tag...)
>
> Maybe adding another variable not containing the date would be a
> good idea?

Looking at the two patches side-by-side makes me think your original from
from February actually is much better.

Why don't we apply your original, reproduced here for a quick round of
comment?

-- >8 --
From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Use user.name and user.email in import-tars.perl
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:57:18 +0100

Mimic what is done in git-import.sh and git-import.perl

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
---
 contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl b/contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl
index 23aeb25..39c091c 100755
--- a/contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ die "usage: import-tars *.tar.{gz,bz2,Z}\n" unless @ARGV;
 
 my $branch_name = 'import-tars';
 my $branch_ref = "refs/heads/$branch_name";
-my $committer_name = 'T Ar Creator';
-my $committer_email = 'tar@example.com';
+chomp(my $committer_name = `git config user.name`);
+chomp(my $committer_email = `git config user.email`);
+die 'You need to set user name and email'
+  unless $committer_name && $committer_email;
 
 open(FI, '|-', 'git', 'fast-import', '--quiet')
 	or die "Unable to start git fast-import: $!\n";

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