Multiple whoami?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Eric Berry wrote:
> How exactly is the whoami property used?

It's stored as the "committer" attribute of the revision.  That field is
expected to contain a single emai-id, of the format "Firstname Lastname
<email at example.org>", and many tools like Bundle Buggy assume this.

> Is it for automatically sending patches to?

No, it is for tools and people to identify authors.

> In the case where I have supplied to email addresses, would only the
> first one be used, or would having two actually break something?

It will break things.

Aaron
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