Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > It doesn't get rid of the "you don't exist" message, and I think just > dying there makes sense. But that is actually the one that I consider > the most likely to happen in practice, and should probably have a more > useful error message. Yeah, I do not think anybody minds losing that phrasing from that message (the "parents" and "sysadmin" were the humorous ones), and we certainly can phrase it differently, e.g. Your system didn't tell me your real name; hint: git help config and look for user.name or something. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html