From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: You don't exist, Go away! although user.name has been set Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:38:31 +0200 Message-ID: <48CF6277.4060807@op5.se> References: <20080916010529.GB22597@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Marc Weber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 16 09:39:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KfVA4-0004lg-AT for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:39:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752283AbYIPHik (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:38:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752213AbYIPHik (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:38:40 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:60370 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752151AbYIPHij (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:38:39 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8EF1B80079; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:28:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.399 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oWhlK55ff6M1; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:28:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from clix.int.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.171]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F6F1B80048; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:28:18 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) In-Reply-To: <20080916010529.GB22597@gmx.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Marc Weber wrote: > Today I was glad. I 've been able to compile git on a maanged server. > git clone did work as well however running > git fetch caused the line > die("You don't exist. Go away!"); > > to be executed. (the first one) > > Before examining that I asked at #git and got the tip to set > user.name and user.email which I did. Then I verified that git > git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT and > git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT > both printed some values. > > I still got the failure above. > I've fixed it for my case by setting > git_default_name and git_default_email just before the check within the > ident.c file (line 76).. > > However I want to ask wether I've hit a known problem and wether you > would appreciate me debggung this issue any further? > I can assure you that people are capable of fetching, pulling and committing with git. I do it all day long at least. Can you post your ~/.gitconfig (and/or .git/config) file, please? In conjunction, I also need to know the exact username you're using on your system. > Maybe I should add that I've been running that git from the build > directory if that matters. The version is 1.6.0 from the official > mirror site. > If you'd been running 0.99 I'd have been worried. 1.6.0 is pretty solid. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231