From: jidanni@jidanni.org
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:37:17 GMT
Subject: Re: git-gui: Warn when username and e-mail address is unconfigured?
Message-ID: <87ljumi0f6.fsf@jidanni.org>
In-Reply-To: <b9fd99020812051218o1c337148u12b8e190c60f32eb@mail.gmail.com>

On git-commit-tree(1)
  DIAGNOSTICS
       You don't exist. Go away!
           The passwd(5) gecos field couldn't be read

It should say that null is OK though.
jidanni:x:1000:1000:,,,:/home/jidanni:/bin/bash
gives
 Committer: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>
which is what I want. No old fashioned English name for me.