<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_5901">Hi list,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_5900">Just a quick demo showing abuse of git's globals:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_5928"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_5931" href="https://puredata.osuosl.org/jwilkes/purr-data/commit/186d1f3064aa65869c850fb8816a49439c7e93c3">https://puredata.osuosl.org/jwilkes/purr-data/commit/186d1f3064aa65869c850fb8816a49439c7e93c3</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_5932"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_5933">All I'm doing here is accepting a patch I made on a <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6264">Windows machine that forced me to enter a user <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6315" dir="ltr">name and email addy in order to do a commit.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6265" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6314" dir="ltr">git has the good sense to punt on the question <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6266" dir="ltr">of secure identity management-- it lets you use <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6267" dir="ltr">pretty much any garbage you want and assumes <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6269" dir="ltr">the humans behind the screen will separate wheat <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6344" dir="ltr">from chaff.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6270" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6291" dir="ltr">However, the user-friendly tools that wrap around <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6380" dir="ltr">git (github, gitlab, etc.) don't make this clear as you <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6349" dir="ltr">can hopefully see. :)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6379" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_6385" dir="ltr">-Jonathan<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462396874746_4862"><br></div></div></body></html>