On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 05:35:52PM -0500, Taylor Braun-Jones wrote: > > Well.. reflog needs it. So either you disable reflog at clone time or > > define name/email via config file. I don't see anything wrong with > > this behavior. > > Can't git just use "unknown" and "unknown@localhost" if the name or > email can not be determined from xgetpwuid? This seems to be the way > that Mercurial behaves. Yeah, I think there is a mismatch here in the ident code. When we are making a commit (which is likely to get published and is set in stone), we ask for "IDENT_STRICT", which will barf if we can't come up with something sensible. For reflogs, we are OK putting whatever auto-generated crap in there we can come up with. But before we even hit the strict-check, we call xgetpwuid_self(), which unconditionally dies on failure. I think that function needs to be taught a "gently" form which we use for non-strict ident lookups. Unfortunately it's a little non-trivial because the strictness will need to get passed all the way down to ident_default_name() (and we need to make sure that a non-strict check followed by a strict one does not fail; i.e., that the first does not pollute the contents of git_default_name). -Peff -- 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