Subject: Re: Git 1.1.6.g4d44 make test FAILURE report

From: A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:37:23 -0800

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Thanks; good catch.  I think we should export GIT_*_{NAME,EMAIL}
> variables explicitly for this particular problem.  We probably
> do _not_ want to do the same for GIT_*_DATE though.

Also, git-var complains when used by an account with an empty gcos 
field; thereby, breaking all the non-C git commands even when the user 
is not committing.

If the _intent_ was to force commiters and author names in commits, why 
was the test not placed only in commit-tree.c?