The environment variable EMAIL has been honored since
28a94f8 (Fall back
to $EMAIL for missing GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL,
2007-04-28) as the end-user's wish to use the address as the identity.
When we use it, we should say we are explicitly given email by the user.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
if (!git_default_email[0]) {
const char *email = getenv("EMAIL");
- if (email && email[0])
+ if (email && email[0]) {
strlcpy(git_default_email, email,
sizeof(git_default_email));
- else {
+ user_ident_explicitly_given |= IDENT_MAIL_GIVEN;
+ } else {
if (!pw)
pw = getpwuid(getuid());
if (!pw)