From: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:01:48 GMT
Subject: Re: git-gui: Warn when username and e-mail address is unconfigured?
Message-ID: <bb6f213e0812050301t2f18061epfeff7bc74ee6f28a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b9fd99020812041558w204e5f48gbed73fdbd289ad@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Jeremy Ramer <jdramer@gmail.com> 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'?

Alexander