Re: empty ident name trashes commit message

2012-07-23 Thread Ramana Kumar
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 03:26:26PM +0100, Ramana Kumar wrote: > >> If I forget to set user.email and user.name config options and do a commit >> (possibly the --amend option also required to make this show up), then git >>

Re: empty ident name trashes commit message

2012-07-21 Thread Ramana Kumar
If I forget to set user.email and user.name config options and do a commit (possibly the --amend option also required to make this show up), then git 1.7.11.2 will drops me into an editor for a commit message, then after that complain with the fatal message: *** Please tell me who you are.