Re: Merge problems with git-mingw

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 8, 2007, 13:10 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580710080610y739fb51aga82964e212c7917f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710081333350.29715@ds9.cixit.se>

On 10/8/07, Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:

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> > What does this command return?
> >
> >   $ git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT
>
> Doesn't seem to work:
>
>   $ git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT
>   usage: git-var [-l | <variable>]

Something is weird with your setup and/or the mingw port, but you can probably work around the issue by doing this:

$ git config user.name "your name" $ git config user.email "your email"

Optionally, you can add the --global flag to both commands to make the config visible in all of your repos.

-- larsh