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  1. Bug #616878
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 616878

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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote : Re: bzr commit error because of no identity

I think considering the machine's mailname is perhaps not necessary.

As I see it, there are two significant divisions of use-cases here:

1) The ones that bug 549310 was filed about, where users are committing revisions to be shared with the world, and the email address really really ought to be a valid configured email address.

2) The ones who are managing an /etc-in-bzr, where <local-unix-user@machine-hostname> is probably the exact most useful thing that we could record anyway.

Could we not just add a branch.conf boolean setting (and corresponding switches to 'bzr init', 'bzr reconfigure') which reverts to the previous behaviour?