Bug 985383

Summary: git-annex inoperable because git user.email config variable ignored
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stephen <sdeasey>
Component: git-annexAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: dcleal, fedora, haskell-devel
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Fixed In Version: git-annex-3.20130207-1.fc19 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-08-29 22:19:20 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Stephen 2013-07-17 11:17:06 UTC 
Description of problem:

git annex can't read the user.email variable from ~/.gitconfig even though it exists, and refuses to operate.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

git-annex-3.20121009-3.fc19.x86_64
git-1.8.3.1-1.fc19.x86_64


How reproducible:

Always.


Steps to Reproduce:

$ mkdir test1

$ cd test1

$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jo/test1/.git/

$ git annex init
init  
*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: empty ident name (for <jo@machine.(none)>) not allowed

git-annex: user error (git ["--git-dir=/home/jo/test1/.git","--work-tree=/home/jo/test1","commit-tree","4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904"] exited 128)
failed
git-annex: init: 1 failed

$ git config --global user.name Jo
$ git config --global user.email jo

$ cat ~/.gitconfig
[user]
	name = Jo
	email = jo

$ git config --global user.email
jo

$ git config user.email
jo

$ git annex init
init  
*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: empty ident name (for <jo@yo.(none)>) not allowed

git-annex: user error (git ["--git-dir=/home/jo/test1/.git","--work-tree=/home/jo/test1","commit-tree","4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904"] exited 128)
failed
git-annex: init: 1 failed


Actual results:

git-annex: init: 1 failed


Expected results:

The annex repo should be initialised with the settings from ~/.gitconfig


Additional info:

env | grep GIT
<nothing>

Tested with a fresh user account.
Comment 1 Stephen 2013-07-19 21:03:53 UTC 
I downloaded the pre-built binary from:

  http://downloads.kitenet.net/git-annex/linux/current/git-annex-standalone-amd64.tar.gz

dated 2013-07-09 and 'git annex init' works fine:

$ git annex init
init  ok
(Recording state in git...)

I don't know whether this means that this is a packaging bug or an annex bug which has already been fixed upstream.

I tried:

  sudo yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing git-annex

but there's nothing pending.
Comment 2 Dominic Cleal 2013-08-01 22:24:14 UTC 
Confirmed that the newer version fixes this issue, perhaps an incompatibility with a newer version of git.  I rebuilt git-annex-3.20130207-1 from F20 on F19 and "git annex init" now works.
Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2013-08-20 07:50:31 UTC 
Thank you Stephen for reporting this and to Dominic for confirming
that 3.20130207 is okay.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-08-20 08:01:59 UTC 
git-annex-3.20130207-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/git-annex-3.20130207-1.fc19
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-08-21 00:03:59 UTC 
Package git-annex-3.20130207-1.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing git-annex-3.20130207-1.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-15045/git-annex-3.20130207-1.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-08-29 22:19:20 UTC 
git-annex-3.20130207-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.