# [BUG] stgit: unexpected "unknown user details" on refresh 3 messages from 2007-01-04 to 2007-01-05. Participants: Yann Dirson, Catalin Marinas. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6225 ## Yann Dirson, 2007-01-04 23:22 Subject: [BUG] stgit: unexpected "unknown user details" on refresh Message-ID: <20070104232224.GA12756@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070104232224.GA12756%40nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net ``` Hi Catalin, Here is an error I just got when refreshing. The refresh did occur, but the error is annoying and may hide something: dwitch@gandelf:/export/work/yann/git/stgit$ ./stg ref contrib/stg-whatchanged Checking for changes in the working directory... done Refreshing patch "whatchanged"...stg ref: unknown user details dwitch@gandelf:/export/work/yann/git/stgit$ echo $? 2 When using "refresh -p", we can see the error occurs before rewinding to current patch: dwitch@gandelf:/export/work/yann/git/stgit$ ./stg ref -p show-old Checking for changes in the working directory... done Popping patch "whatchanged"... done Refreshing patch "show-old"...stg ref: unknown user details dwitch@gandelf:/export/work/yann/git/stgit$ stg top show-old ``` ## Catalin Marinas, 2007-01-05 09:07 Subject: Re: [BUG] stgit: unexpected "unknown user details" on refresh Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/b0943d9e0701050107s21ec8527ud89425df4772998%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20070104232224.GA12756@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> ``` On 04/01/07, Yann Dirson wrote: > Here is an error I just got when refreshing. The refresh did occur, but > the error is annoying and may hide something: > > dwitch@gandelf:/export/work/yann/git/stgit$ ./stg ref contrib/stg-whatchanged > Checking for changes in the working directory... done > Refreshing patch "whatchanged"...stg ref: unknown user details I changed StGIT to use the same configuration file as GIT and it cannot find the user information. To remove the error: git repo-config --global user.name Yann Dirson git repo-config --global user.email ydirson@altern.org It probably tries to set the author information for the patch and GIT_AUTH* or GIT_COMMIT* aren't set but it would be probably useful to get the full backtrace of this error (at the end of the stgit/main.py file, just add a "raise" before sys.exit(2)). -- Catalin ``` ## Yann Dirson, 2007-01-05 22:29 Subject: Re: [BUG] stgit: unexpected "unknown user details" on refresh Message-ID: <20070105222944.GA6179@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070105222944.GA6179%40nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:07:51AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > It probably tries to set the author information for the patch and > GIT_AUTH* or GIT_COMMIT* aren't set but it would be probably useful to > get the full backtrace of this error (at the end of the stgit/main.py > file, just add a "raise" before sys.exit(2)). Email vars are set, name is taken (by git) from GECOS. Apparently StGIT does not use the latter. It would surely be more user-friendly to use it, as much for providing a (hopefully) sane default as to get a behaviour consistent with GIT. $ env|grep GIT GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=ydirson@altern.org GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=ydirson@altern.org As you expected: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./stg", line 43, in ? main() File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/main.py", line 262, in main command.func(parser, options, args) File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/commands/refresh.py", line 145, in func backup = True, sign_str = sign_str) File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/stack.py", line 674, in refresh_patch patch.set_authdate(author_date) File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/stack.py", line 265, in set_authdate self._set_field('authdate', date or git.author().date) File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/git.py", line 475, in author __author = user() File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/git.py", line 457, in user raise GitException, 'unknown user details' stgit.git.GitException: unknown user details Best regards, -- Yann. ```