Today I was glad. I 've been able to compile git on a maanged server. git clone did work as well however running git fetch <remote location> caused the line die("You don't exist. Go away!"); to be executed. (the first one) Before examining that I asked at #git and got the tip to set user.name and user.email which I did. Then I verified that git git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT and git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT both printed some values. I still got the failure above. I've fixed it for my case by setting git_default_name and git_default_email just before the check within the ident.c file (line 76).. However I want to ask wether I've hit a known problem and wether you would appreciate me debggung this issue any further? Maybe I should add that I've been running that git from the build directory if that matters. The version is 1.6.0 from the official mirror site. Marc Weber -- 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