From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:16:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Suppressing the user.name warning
Message-ID: <20111214221608.GA12644@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4EE91A1D.6080908@gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:50:21PM -0500, Jay Levitt wrote:

> 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