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

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Apr 19, 2006, 09:51 UTC
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<20060419095128.GE27689@pasky.or.cz>
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Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:37:47PM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Because "pull" means "fetch and merge the local modifications if
> any".  When you merge (and you _did_ merge), you create a new
> commit of your own, and the commit records who committed it.
> 
> You need GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL.
You mean GIT_COMMITTER_NAME. :-)
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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.
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Message 5 of 6 in “Next problem: empty ident <joern@limerick.(none)> not allowed”
  1. Jörn EngelApr 18, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2006
  3. Jörn EngelApr 18, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2006
  5. Petr BaudisApr 19, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2006

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