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[PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
Cc: 66618 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email
 address to avoid mistakes.
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:34:45 -0400

Hi Clément,

Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org> writes:

> * etc/git/gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes that
> could lead to send private patches to guix-patches <at> gnu.org.
> ---
>
> This just happened to me twice in a row, so I imagine it could happen to some
> other people as well.
>
>  etc/git/gitconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/etc/git/gitconfig b/etc/git/gitconfig
> index 907ad0180454..3e94fe801e90 100644
> --- a/etc/git/gitconfig
> +++ b/etc/git/gitconfig
> @@ -13,6 +13,5 @@
>          rebase = true
>  
>  [sendemail]
> -        to = guix-patches <at> gnu.org
>          headerCmd = etc/teams.scm cc-members-header-cmd
>          thread = no

Having guix-patches <at> gnu.org as the default endpoint of 'git send-email'
seems reasonable when working on the Guix checkout.  From my
perspective, it is a useful default to me at least, so without more
information as to how that happened, I'm inclined to close this as notabug
:-).

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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