On 4/25/2023 1:37 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> On 4/25/2023 5:38 AM, Po Lu wrote:
>> When trying to commit from a brand new machine installed at my
>> organization, I made a mistake.  I configured the git username and
>> e-mail as root, and not as my user.
>>
>> So now there is a commit from the default Git username on emacs.git.  Is
>> there a way to rectify this mistake?
> 
> It won't rectify it, but we could prevent this in the future with a Git 
> hook (and one that's significantly simpler than the one I added for 
> change log entries).

In fact, we can do something even simpler than that: just set the config 
option "user.useConfigOnly" to true. See attached. Does this look ok to 
everyone?