Everything you said is true. But it misses the point. If I try to commit for the first time, don’t want to set the global config, look at man git-commit and search for “author", it says “—author” to specify the author. Since “comitter” is such a hidden feature that even long time users of git don’t necessarily know about it, when I then specify “—author” and get the “same” error message again, I have no clue what’s going on, since I just specified my user name and email, and still I’m told it cannot be determined. > On 9. Feb 2024, at 09:37, Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 9, 2024, at 08:43, Marcus Tillmanns wrote: >> Uff, that’s a mean trap. Especially since there is no “—committer” >> option as far as I can see. > > Your report would have been more clear if you included the error: Had I had any idea that the report was different between with / without —author I probably would have added it, or found out what the issue was. Cheers, Marcus
