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Re: git-gui: Warn when username and e-mail address is unconfigured?

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Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2008, 21:30 UTC
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On Thursday 04 December 2008 23:54:00 Jeremy Ramer wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 17:05, Jeremy Ramer <jdramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> That's strange. I am using git 1.6.0.4 on cygwin and I get a warning
> >> message every time I start git gui.  I actually find this really
> >> annoying and would like a way to turn this warning message off.
> >
> > git config --global user.name "Your Name"
> > git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
> >
> 
> I have done that.  I still get the warning message every time I start git gui.
> --

What does it say precisely? I.e. is it perhaps the warning about subprocesses possibly ignoring the value of environment variables?

Alexander
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Message 5 of 10 in “git-gui: Warn when username and e-mail address is unconfigured?”
  1. Peter KreftingDec 4, 2008
  2. Jeremy RamerDec 4, 2008
  3. Sverre RabbelierDec 4, 2008
  4. Jeremy RamerDec 4, 2008
  5. Alexander GavrilovDec 4, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2008
  7. Jeremy RamerDec 4, 2008
  8. Alexander GavrilovDec 5, 2008
  9. Jeremy RamerDec 5, 2008
  10. jidanni@jidanni.orgDec 12, 2008

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