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What does this error message mean?

Subject: What does this error message mean?

## tl;dr

3 messages between Feb 21, 2006 and Feb 22, 2006.

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Alan Chandler· Feb 21, 2006, 22:06 UTC · lore

alan@kanger usermgr[master]$ git commit -a fatal: empty ident <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> not allowed

Suddenly started happening, possibly after upgrade (via debian) to git 1.2.1

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Timo Hirvonen· Feb 21, 2006, 22:46 UTC · re: Alan Chandler · lore

Re: What does this error message mean?

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:06:36 +0000 Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:

> alan@kanger usermgr[master]$ git commit -a
> fatal: empty ident  <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> not allowed
> 
> Suddenly started happening, possibly after upgrade (via debian) to git 1.2.1

Your GIT_AUTHOR_NAME is empty?

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Alan Chandler· Feb 22, 2006, 04:42 UTC · re: Timo Hirvonen · lore

Re: What does this error message mean?

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:46, Timo Hirvonen wrote:

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> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:06:36 +0000
>
> Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> > alan@kanger usermgr[master]$ git commit -a
> > fatal: empty ident  <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> not allowed
> >
> > Suddenly started happening, possibly after upgrade (via debian) to git
> > 1.2.1
>
> Your GIT_AUTHOR_NAME is empty?

Yes - seems it was.

Although it has been like that for some months, whereas this is the first time git-commit failed.

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