From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:51:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Next problem: empty ident <joern@limerick.(none)> not allowed
Message-ID: <20060419095128.GE27689@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vr73uei1w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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...
> 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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