Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 985383
git-annex inoperable because git user.email config variable ignored
Last modified: 2013-08-29 18:19:20 EDT
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@example.com" 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@example.com $ cat ~/.gitconfig [user] name = Jo email = jo@example.com $ git config --global user.email jo@example.com $ git config user.email jo@example.com $ git annex init init *** Please tell me who you are. Run git config --global user.email "you@example.com" 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.
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.
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.
Thank you Stephen for reporting this and to Dominic for confirming that 3.20130207 is okay.
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
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).
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.