From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Trim hint printed when gecos is empty.
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:27:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ekh2uh$nk2$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
Trim hint printed when gecos is empty.
Remove asterisks for readability
Suggest use of git-config for easy cut & pasting.
---
ident.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index efec97f..e415fd3 100644
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -158,12 +158,17 @@ static int copy(char *buf, int size, int
static const char au_env[] = "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME";
static const char co_env[] = "GIT_COMMITTER_NAME";
static const char *env_hint =
-"\n*** Environment problem:\n"
+"\n"
"*** Your name cannot be determined from your system services (gecos).\n"
-"*** You would need to set %s and %s\n"
-"*** environment variables; otherwise you won't be able to perform\n"
-"*** certain operations because of \"empty ident\" errors.\n"
-"*** Alternatively, you can use user.name configuration variable.\n\n";
+"\n"
+"Run\n"
+"\n"
+" git repo-config user.email \"you@email.com\"\n"
+" git repo-config user.name \"Your Name\"\n"
+"\n"
+"To set the identity in this repository.\n"
+"Add --global to set your account\'s default\n"
+"\n";
static const char *get_ident(const char *name, const char *email,
const char *date_str, int error_on_no_name)
--
1.4.2.4
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
next reply other threads:[~2006-11-28 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-28 10:27 Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2006-11-28 10:52 ` [PATCH] Trim hint printed when gecos is empty Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-28 11:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-28 11:46 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-28 13:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-28 14:03 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-28 14:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-28 15:06 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-28 15:31 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-28 18:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-29 9:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
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