From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:35:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?
Message-ID: <20080604003516.GA24232@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080603231020.GB6588@neumann>

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:10:20AM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> Yes, the first hunk fixes the problem (and the second one does not
> introduce any new breakage on my system ;)
> 
> However, I don't really see why the new test failed only at me...

Because you were the only person (so far) whose gecos information wasn't
sufficient for git-commit to work. In Junio's case, the test script
accidentally unset the GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME,EMAIL} variables, which
caused git-commit to fall back on the information in /etc/passwd; it
worked, but it was doing something unintended. On your system, that
information wasn't available, so git-commit just broke.

-Peff