If no username set... then something like '@[IPADDR]' makes sense...
(not in email brackets).
+> Why not put it in email brackets? --[[Joey]]
+
In the case of OpenID login.. I think that's a special case... I don't
think attempting to munge something meaningful out of the OpenID makes
sense... but I think some massaging might need to be done.
> Yes, it does:
>
-> joey@kodama:~/tmp/foo/bar>git commit --author "foo"
-> fatal: malformed --author parameter
+> joey@kodama:~/tmp/foo/bar>git commit --author "foo"
+> fatal: malformed --author parameter
>
> It seems to be happy with anything of the form "foo <foo>" -- doesn't seem to
> do any kind of strict checking. Even "http://joey.kitenet.net <>" will be