On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:07:51AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > It probably tries to set the author information for the patch and > GIT_AUTH* or GIT_COMMIT* aren't set but it would be probably useful to > get the full backtrace of this error (at the end of the stgit/main.py > file, just add a "raise" before sys.exit(2)). Email vars are set, name is taken (by git) from GECOS. Apparently StGIT does not use the latter. It would surely be more user-friendly to use it, as much for providing a (hopefully) sane default as to get a behaviour consistent with GIT. $ env|grep GIT GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=ydirson@xxxxxxxxxx GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=ydirson@xxxxxxxxxx As you expected: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./stg", line 43, in ? main() File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/main.py", line 262, in main command.func(parser, options, args) File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/commands/refresh.py", line 145, in func backup = True, sign_str = sign_str) File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/stack.py", line 674, in refresh_patch patch.set_authdate(author_date) File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/stack.py", line 265, in set_authdate self._set_field('authdate', date or git.author().date) File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/git.py", line 475, in author __author = user() File "/export/work/yann/git/stgit/stgit/git.py", line 457, in user raise GitException, 'unknown user details' stgit.git.GitException: unknown user details Best regards, -- Yann. - 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