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Re: git ident

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sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date
Apr 9, 2006, 19:02 UTC
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On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:48:49 -0500 Jeremy English <jhe@jeremyenglish.org> wrote:

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> I keep a local project in a git archive.  After the last upgrade I get a 
> ident error when trying to commit.  It works after I set the environment 
> variables.  What I don't like is that the error comes up after I have 
> typed in my comment, then my comment is lost, that's frustrating.  The 
> other thing is I don't care if the commit is coming from a valid person, 
> why require this?

Believe it is required to reduce the number of commits made in the kernel project with incorrect attribution. To remove the need to set environment variables, use the repo-config command to set some defaults:

$ git repo-config user.email "you@email.com" $ git repo-config user.name "your name"

HTH, Sean

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