From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail•com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please fix the useless email prompts
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 09:36:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbmnba50e.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8=i33rtopVt=sgg0k+P4JQO+1EVpPJ+u5CPGEXKvZ+PBA@mail.gmail.com> (Jeffrey Walton's message of "Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:10:23 -0400")
Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail•com> writes:
> Is it possible to fix the issue shown below?
>
> I'm on a test machine. All I do is update to the latest code, build
> the library and run the self tests.
>
> The test user account does not have a name and does not have an email
> address. There's nothing to provide.
>
> There's no reason to break my workflows for useless Git policies like
> "please tell me your email address". Its not my policy, and there's
> nothing critical about it.
>
> Jeff
>
> **********
>
> $ git pull
>
> *** Please tell me who you are.
>
> Run
>
> git config --global user.email "you@example•com"
> git config --global user.name "Your Name"
>
> to set your account's default identity.
> Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.
>
> fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'test@via.(none)')
Hasn't this been asked and answered already?
https://public-inbox.org/git/CACBZZX4vEOD-4a-eK-uBxmFrb1GLSvJKxHW51whCSbCZdh7amQ@mail.gmail.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-19 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-19 15:10 Please fix the useless email prompts Jeffrey Walton
2017-08-19 16:36 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-08-19 18:02 ` Jeffrey Walton
2017-08-19 19:17 ` Patryk Obara
2017-08-20 9:18 ` Jeff King
2017-08-20 10:19 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-20 12:40 ` Andrew Ardill
2017-08-20 21:57 ` Anatolii Borodin
2017-08-20 23:32 ` Andrew Ardill
2017-08-20 23:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-23 15:35 ` Jeff King
2017-08-23 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-20 21:50 ` Anatolii Borodin
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