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Re: Suppressing the user.name warning

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 14, 2011, 22:16 UTC
Message-ID
<20111214221608.GA12644@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:50:21PM -0500, Jay Levitt wrote:
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> Is there a way to suppress the user.name/email warning without
> configuring them in .gitconfig? I want to pass them in SSH as
> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL; git uses the values, but still
> warns me every time.
> 
> Seems like if git can get that data in any form, it shouldn't
> complain about not having it.  No?

Git should not be complaining if it gets the data from the environment. However, you should also be setting GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL. Otherwise they will come from the passwd file, and git will issue the warning.

-Peff
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