$EMAIL and author

Thomas Arendsen Hein thomas at intevation.de
Thu Jun 9 20:43:45 UTC 2005


* Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com> [20050609 20:48]:
> But, when I checked in stuff on my system, it showed:
> author: root at localhost

As matt said, better run it as a non-root user.

> author: Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
> 
> I'm curious if it's safe to stuff that into $EMAIL, or if I should 
> instead put my name & email in $HGUSER.

If $EMAIL doesn't allow RFC compliant email addresses, this would be
really disappointing :)

But this reminds me that I wanted to change hgweb's annotation to
display this in a better way.

Thomas

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