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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 667408] Re: bzr blame gives error if user has not done 'bzr whoami'

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On 10/28/2010 7:16 AM, Martin Pool wrote:
> Thanks for the report. There are other similar bugs in other commands.
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> Perhaps we should check for a 'reliable' user id only in commit?

I believe the trigger is that bzr wants to be able to annotate the
working copy for any changes relative to the basis, and be able to label
those lines as modified by you.

We could fall back to something else if we can't determine a valid "whoami".

John
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