Subject: Re: enhancement: support for author.email and author.name in "git config"

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:44:28 -0800

William Hubbs wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:20:07PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

>> There *is* a way to get what you want that is super easy and will
>> definitely work: if you sit down and do it ;-)
>>
>> Please let us know if you need any additional information before you can
>> start.
>
> Which branch should I work off of in the repo?

"master".

Also, please make sure the documentation (e.g. in
Documentation/config/user.txt) describes when a user would want to set
this option.

See also:
- Documentation/SubmittingPatches
- the DISCUSSION section of "git help format-patch"
- [1]
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#hacking-git

Thanks,
Jonathan

[1] https://github.com/gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget#a-bot-to-serve-as-glue-between-github-pull-requests-and-the-git-mailing-list