The "config --global" suggested in the message is a valid one-shot fix, and hopefully one-shot across machines that NFS mounts the home directories. This knowledge can hopefully be reused when you are forced to use git on Windows, but the fix based on GECOS would probably not. [sb: commit message taken from a Junio's comment] Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@xxxxxxxxx> --- ident.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c index b839dcf..4007c5a 100644 --- a/ident.c +++ b/ident.c @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static const char au_env[] = "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"; static const char co_env[] = "GIT_COMMITTER_NAME"; static const char *env_hint = "\n" -"*** Your name cannot be determined from your system services (gecos).\n" +"*** Your name cannot be determined.\n" "\n" "Run\n" "\n" -- 1.5.4.3.589.g6816 -- 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
