[ET Trac] #2662: Try to get email from ~/.gitconfig

#2662: Try to get email from ~/.gitconfig

Reporter: Steven R. Brandt Status: new Milestone: Version: Type: enhancement Priority: trivial Component: SimFactory

Comment (by Roland Haas):

I requested changes. Basically, modern git actually defaults to `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config` for its config file and only falls back to `~/.gitconfig` if the needed. Best is to query git about its options using `git config --global user.email` (taking care of failures etc if `git` is not in `$PATH` or otherwise not executable of course).

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