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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 614404] [NEW] commit uses system user-id to generate revision-id even when committer id is supplied

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Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> The supplied traceback was generated with "committer" set, but system
> username unset.
>
> While the text of revision-ids is arguably unimportant, the requirement
> that a system username be set even if it's not being used as the commit-
> id is a burden for bzrlib clients.

It isn't a strict requirement for the revision-ids. We *did* decide to
make it a strict requirement for commit to put a correct username into
the Revision record.

I'm pretty sure this is WontFix, as it was an explicit decision in the
last release.

John
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