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From: "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Merge problems with git-mingw
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:10:20 +0200
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On 10/8/07, Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> > What does this command return?
> >
> >   $ git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT
>
> Doesn't seem to work:
>
>   $ git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT
>   usage: git-var [-l | <variable>]

Something is weird with your setup and/or the mingw port, but you can
probably work around the issue by doing this:

$ git config user.name "your name"
$ git config user.email "your email"

Optionally, you can add the --global flag to both commands to make the
config visible in all of your repos.

--
larsh