Next problem: empty ident <joern@limerick.(none)> not allowed

From: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Date: Apr 18, 2006, 20:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20060418202525.GD25688@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

After successfully using a central object store with git://... instead of rsync://... (thanks to Sam and Linus), I've run into the next problem:

$ env | grep GIT GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Joern Engel GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY=/home/joern/.git GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=joern@wh.fh-wedel.de

$ git pull git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6.git
Unpacking 74 objects
 100% (74/74) done
Trying really trivial in-index merge...
Wonderful.
fatal: empty ident  <joern@limerick.(none)> not allowed

Adding this to .git/config solved the problem:
[user]
	name = "Joern Engel"
	email = "joern@foo.bar"

And now I have some questions:
1. Why didn't the environment variables work?
2. Why is there a check for commit information when I pull from some
tree?

Jörn

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