[patch] Use /etc/mailname if available

[Robey Pointer]

On 20 Dec 2005, at 23:42, Aaron Bentley wrote:

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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.
>
> 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.

Just wanted to add +1 to this.  It's bitten me in the past, and I've  
actually wanted to hand-edit the revision files to fix it too.

Silently using the wrong email address is worse than just asking once.

robey