From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:37:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Next problem: empty ident <joern@limerick.(none)> not allowed
Message-ID: <7vu08qei2o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060418202525.GD25688@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

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,