$EMAIL is a last resort fallback, as it's system-wide.

From: Pierre Habouzit <[email protected]>

Rationale: $EMAIL is a system-wide setup that is used for many many many
applications. If the git user chose a specific user.email setup, then _this_ should be honoured rather than $EMAIL.

---
 ident.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

index 69a04b8..3d49608 100644
@@ -196,9 +196,9 @@ const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email,
 	if (!name)
 		name = git_default_name;
 	if (!email)
-		email = getenv("EMAIL");
-	if (!email)
 		email = git_default_email;
+	if (!email)
+		email = getenv("EMAIL");
 
 	if (!*name) {
 		struct passwd *pw;

1.5.2.1

Eeeew sorry for the repost, I sent the bad patch with git send-email.
my mistake.

·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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