From: Jeremy Ramer Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:18:54 GMT Subject: Re: git-gui: Warn when username and e-mail address is unconfigured? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Alexander Gavrilov wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Jeremy Ramer wrote: >> Yes, that does appear to be the message I get, with the following >> environment variables: >> - GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL >> - GIT_COMMITTER_NAME >> - GIT_COMMITER_EMAIL >> - GIT_AUTHOR_NAME >> >> Now that I look closer I see that I am setting these in my .bashrc >> file. When I first started using git a year ago I was given the >> impression that these were needed. But I see that that is no longer >> the case since I use the config: >> >> git config --global user.name "Your Name" >> git config --global user.email "you@example.com" >> >> Removing them from my .bashrc removes the warning. In hindsight the >> warning should have clued me in, but I've been seeing that message >> since I first started using git on Cygwin so I figured it was a cygwin >> issue that I couldn't do anything about. >> > > I wonder if what the warning says is still true. It's 2 years since > it was added, so the issue might have been fixed. > > If you run "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=foobar git gui", and make a commit, > does it set the author name to 'foobar'? I ran export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="foobar git gui" and then made a commit with git gui and it did not set the author name to foobar. It used my global config name. > > Alexander >