[PD-dev] quick demo of git author garbage

[Miller Puckette]

Excellent.

cheers
M

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 09:54:11PM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-dev wrote:
> Hi list,Just a quick demo showing abuse of git's globals:https://puredata.osuosl.org/jwilkes/purr-data/commit/186d1f3064aa65869c850fb8816a49439c7e93c3
> All I'm doing here is accepting a patch I made on a 
> Windows machine that forced me to enter a user 
> name and email addy in order to do a commit.
> git has the good sense to punt on the question 
> of secure identity management-- it lets you use 
> pretty much any garbage you want and assumes 
> the humans behind the screen will separate wheat 
> from chaff.
> However, the user-friendly tools that wrap around 
> git (github, gitlab, etc.) don't make this clear as you 
> can hopefully see. :)
> -Jonathan
> 

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