On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Jeremy Ramer <jdramer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, that does appear to be the message I get, with the following > environment variables: > - GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL > - GIT_COMMITTER_NAME > - GIT_COMMITER_EMAIL > - GIT_AUTHOR_NAME > > Now that I look closer I see that I am setting these in my .bashrc > file. When I first started using git a year ago I was given the > impression that these were needed. But I see that that is no longer > the case since I use the config: > > git config --global user.name "Your Name" > git config --global user.email "you@xxxxxxxxxxx" > > Removing them from my .bashrc removes the warning. In hindsight the > warning should have clued me in, but I've been seeing that message > since I first started using git on Cygwin so I figured it was a cygwin > issue that I couldn't do anything about. > I wonder if what the warning says is still true. It's 2 years since it was added, so the issue might have been fixed. If you run "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=foobar git gui", and make a commit, does it set the author name to 'foobar'? Alexander -- 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
