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

$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.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

ident.c

@@ -195,10 +195,10 @@ const char *fmt_ident(const char *name, const char *email,
 	setup_ident();
 	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;