Re: stgit "unknown user details" bug?

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 13, 2007, 10:40 UTC
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0702130240x1822f882t4f0d1780647d98ad@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200702130434.l1D4YmrA010122@freya.yggdrasil.com>

On 13/02/07, Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote:

>         First of all, I apologize in advance for cc'ing the busy git

Gmail decided this mail is spam, probably because of the "apologize" word (frequent in the Nigerian letters :-)).

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> mailing list with problems about stgit.  The stgit web page at
> http://www.procode.org/stgit/ says "Please report bugs to Catalin
> Marinas and copy the GIT mailing list."  I would feel less guilty
> about whose time I was spending on reports like this if there were a
> separate stgit-users list.

I asked the GIT people some time ago and they were OK with porcelain tools postings here. They should let me know if it become annoying. You could also use https://gna.org/bugs/?group=stgit for reporting bugs (or search for previous reports).

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>         I did the "stg pull" as root, did not set any of the
> GIT_AUTHOR_* environment variables and did not create any kind of git
> or stg configuration file.  No doubt I could work around this by
> setting up some kind of configuration file, but I should not be
> required to do so, especially just to do a "pull".

A quick fix is to run:

git repo-config --global user.name "Adam J. Richter" git repo-config --global user.email adam@yggdrasil.com

>         I don't mind that a version control system might log user ID
> and email addresses somewhere, but it should still work if I do not
> wish to provide that information.

As Yann said, there is already a bug logged for this issue. I also think there is a different issue mailed me yesterday with the same thing when pushing a patch, even though the patch author/committer information was already in the patch metadata handled by StGIT.

I'll have a look at this.

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Catalin