Use /etc/mailname for default email
Bug #131716 reported by
James Y Knight
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #616878: bzr commit error because of no identity (should look at /etc/mailname).
Edit
Remove
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bazaar |
Confirmed
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
bzr (Debian) |
Confirmed
|
Unknown
|
Bug Description
Let's say I have lots of people using bzr in a company. It'd be really nice if I could make bzr automatically use @companyname.com as the domain, without each user having to run bzr whoami. Right now, it does username@
I'm not sure how standard /etc/mailname is, but it seems like it'd serve this purpose well (that is: if /etc/mailname exists, use it in preference to socket.
Changed in bzr: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: whoami |
Changed in bzr (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
To post a comment you must log in.
I noticed this was discussed (with trivial patch attached) a couple of years ago. It didn't look like there was anyone saying it shouldn't be done, so I guess it just got dropped by mistake.
https:/ /lists. ubuntu. com/archives/ bazaar/ 2005q4/ 006236. html