[patch] Use /etc/mailname if available

[Erik Bågfors]

2005/12/21, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca>:
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> James Blackwell wrote:
> | I'm in favor of guessing even if wrong. Users don't seem to care much
> | about the committer field until they get into merging. Once they
> | get to that point they can fix it then.
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> I recently had a conversation with someone in IRC who wanted to edit his
> revisions because they had the wrong committer ID.  I told him 'No!
> That's forbidden by the model!'  And I got this sense of deja vu, as if
> I was still working on Arch.
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> I think it's irritating, at the very least, for bzr to store
> likely-wrong information in perpetuity.  It doesn't seem fair to the
> user, who might be quite willing to correct it, given a warning.  And
> there have been situations in which I thought the committer ID was set
> correctly, but it was not.  Those bugged me.

Well... I can see one way of working around it, to correct it.  As
long as you haven't published your changes.

bzr branch -r <X> branch newbranch
cd newbranch
bzr pull -r <X+1>
bzr uncommit (using the uncommit plugin)
bzr commit -m 'same message'
bzr pull -r <X+2>
bzr uncommit
bzr commit -m 'same message'

etc.

But yes..  it would be nice to be able to fix it easier.

Oh.. I have a branch that implements "bzr pull -r" but I am going to
create a test case before publishing it.

Regards,
Erik