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From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What does this error message mean?
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:46:37 +0200
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:06:36 +0000
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:

> alan@kanger usermgr[master]$ git commit -a
> fatal: empty ident  <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> not allowed
> 
> Suddenly started happening, possibly after upgrade (via debian) to git 1.2.1

Your GIT_AUTHOR_NAME is empty?

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