Subject: Re: Please fix the useless email prompts

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 09:36:49 -0700

Jeffrey Walton <[email-masked]> 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 "[email-masked]"
>   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?

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