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

[Nicholas Allen]

I'm aware of that. Ideally, we would not want abc at ableton.com (even 
though this would be an invalid email). We like the short ids as they 
are quicker to scan with the eye. If there is extra info there then it 
is distracting as it has no importance. It's a *very very* minor issue 
and certainly not a show stopper or anything ;-)

If you really want to enforce the global id that has an @ character in 
it then bzr whoami "myid" should not report that it's ok not to have an 
email address. Either whoami or commit should be changed but they should 
be consistent with each other at least. We would obviously prefer that 
commit was changed and not whoami but as long as there is consistancy 
it's no biggy...

Thanks,

Nick

Martin Pool wrote:
> On  2 Nov 2006, Nicholas Allen <nick.allen at onlinehome.de> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Then i'd suggest using 
>
>   abc at company
>
> Just thing of it as a way to get a globally unique id; it doesn't have
> to be able to receive mail.
>
>