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Re: Next problem: empty ident <joern@limerick.(none)> not allowed

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 18, 2006, 20:37 UTC
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Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> writes:
> And now I have some questions:
> 1. Why didn't the environment variables work?
> 2. Why is there a check for commit information when I pull from some
> tree?

Because "pull" means "fetch and merge the local modifications if any". When you merge (and you _did_ merge), you create a new commit of your own, and the commit records who committed it.

You need GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL.

Now, the normal "git log" does not verbosely show committer and author,

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