Commit does not allow missing email address but whoami says this is allowed

[Nicholas Allen]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Nicholas Allen <allen at ableton.com> writes:
>
>   
>> As we are working on an internal closed source system we probably
>> would not want to set our email address.
>>     
>
> Why not? Don't you want to be able to look at 'bzr log' and so on with
> email addresses?
>
> There's no need to make the bzr data available to anyone you don't
> want to, so I don't see why you can't put your email address there.
> Even if you were to distribute the source code, you wouldn't include
> any bzr data.
>
>   
The reason why not is because every developer has an id and that id is 
unique for our company. We use this id not just in source code but 
everywhere. So everyone is familiar with everyone else's id (which is 
based on their initials) and there is no need for an email address as 
far as we are concerned.

Nick