Comment 6 for bug 616878

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 616878] Re: bzr commit error because of no identity

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 16:59 +0000, Parth Malwankar wrote:
> Maybe a option (bzr ci --guess-user|--guess-whoami) can be provided. I
> would prefer a new option to a warning as it would allow special cases
> to be handled explicitly and in the normal case the user won't need to
> commit <fail> uncommit - whoami - commit. Instead commit <fail> whoami
> - commit sequence would remain.
That means users with a large number of installations (such as elmo)
would still have to run "bzr whoami" in one way or another on all their
machines.