From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:02:04 GMT
Subject: Re: What is missing from Git v2.0
Message-ID: <20140424180204.GL15516@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALbm-Ea4oAQ+JsYu6Zo06ONMbtp8AhgFqDC485BRKsM36EVQXw@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller wrote:

> I may have missunderstood.
>
> So today you cannot commit if you don't provide an email address
> (usually the first time you try to commit, git asks to "git config
> --global author.email=<you@mail.here>"), if I remember correctly, so
> there is definitely a valid (i.e. user approved) email address.

Not true.  But you do get a big wall of text when you make your
first commit without an EMAIL envvar or configured [user] section,
including

| You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:
|
|     git config --global user.name "Your Name"
|     git config --global user.email you@example.com
|
| After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:
| 
|     git commit --amend --reset-author

Ciao,
Jonathan