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Re: What does this error message mean?

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THTimo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 21, 2006, 22:46 UTC
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<20060222004637.1a066569.tihirvon@gmail.com>
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<200602212206.36685.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>

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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