From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sean Subject: Re: git ident Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:02:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44395711.7000902@jeremyenglish.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 09 21:06:18 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSfEg-0008E8-7P for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 21:06:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750761AbWDITGH (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:06:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750825AbWDITGH (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:06:07 -0400 Received: from bayc1-pasmtp08.bayc1.hotmail.com ([65.54.191.168]:47414 "EHLO BAYC1-PASMTP08.BAYC1.HOTMAIL.COM") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750761AbWDITGG (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:06:06 -0400 X-Originating-IP: [69.156.138.66] X-Originating-Email: [seanlkml@sympatico.ca] Received: from linux1.attic.local ([69.156.138.66]) by BAYC1-PASMTP08.BAYC1.HOTMAIL.COM over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 12:09:54 -0700 Received: from guru.attic.local (guru.attic.local [10.10.10.28]) by linux1.attic.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BC5644C28; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:06:04 -0400 (EDT) To: Jeremy English Message-Id: <20060409150242.1796c993.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <44395711.7000902@jeremyenglish.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.4 (GTK+ 2.8.15; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Apr 2006 19:09:54.0843 (UTC) FILETIME=[2F864EB0:01C65C09] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:48:49 -0500 Jeremy English wrote: > I keep a local project in a git archive. After the last upgrade I get a > ident error when trying to commit. It works after I set the environment > variables. What I don't like is that the error comes up after I have > typed in my comment, then my comment is lost, that's frustrating. The > other thing is I don't care if the commit is coming from a valid person, > why require this? Believe it is required to reduce the number of commits made in the kernel project with incorrect attribution. To remove the need to set environment variables, use the repo-config command to set some defaults: $ git repo-config user.email "you@email.com" $ git repo-config user.name "your name" HTH, Sean