Git please tell me who you are error

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I have app servers that I bootstrap together using Chef   some ad-hoc bash scripts  The problem is  when I want to run an update on one of these app servers  I get   19 00 28      Please tell me who you are   Run    git config --global user email  you example com    git config --global user name  Your Name    Do I really need to set this for doing a simple git pull origin master every time I update an app server  Is there anyway to override this behavior so it doesn t error out when name and email are not set

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Same issue was with me and resolved it by adding default name and email Repository Settings.

As Doron suggested -

If you are using sourcetree: Repository -> Repository Settings --> Advanced --> uncheck "Use global user settings" box.

Add default name and email address.

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I had this as a faulty error message  git pull worked fine on the cmd line git pull failed in a Perl CGI process  a webhook to auto-deploy from github  with the above error   Doing a git status identified a clashing file  Sorting it fixed the problem   Problem reoccurred later when I changed some config settings   This time  setting  HOME and  USER env vars fixed it  are unset by default in a CGI process

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Have a look at the config file   Repository   Repository Settings   Edit config file   Check if the  user  section exists  If the user section is missing  add it   Example    user  name    your name  email    your email

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Do I really need to set this for doing a simple git pull origin master every time I update an app server  Is there anyway to override this behavior so it doesn t error out when name and email are not set       It will ask just once and make sure that the rsa public key for this machine is added over your github account to which you are trying to commit or passing a pull request   More information on this can be found  Here

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Update your bootstrap process to create a   HOME   gitconfig with the proper contents  or to copy an existing one from somewhere

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In my case I was missing  e  on the word  email  as Chad stated above but I see its not the case with you  Please hit the following command to see if everything is pulling as expected   git config -l

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I use Jenkins and ran into this problem when trying to perform a release  which requires a git commit   To fix the issues  I needed to add a Custom user name e-mail address  see picture   This ensured that when the code was checked out it used my build user s name email address when performing the release  Note  this configuration is available from the Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline project configuration

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It is unable to auto-detect email address   By default it takes your system username like abc xyz none   So you need to set your email like below   git config user email  someone gmail com    After setting email you can run the git commands and commit your changes    git init git add   git commit -m  some init msg

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git config user email  insert github email here  git config user name  insert github real name here    This worked great for me

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I spent lots of hours on it when I call PHP script to init and commit to git  And I found the work flow should be as   git init git config user name  quot someone quot  git config user email  quot someone someplace com quot  git add   git commit -m  quot some init msg quot   If you swap  23  and 1  the config will not work at all  I wish this will do some help

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That   s a typo  You   ve accidently set  user mail  with no  e   Fix it by setting  user email  in the global configuration with  git config --global user email  you example com   Found solution here  https   stackoverflow com a 14662703

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To fix I use  git config --global user email  you example com  and works   user mail no work  need to put an E  Typo maybe

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it works for me  try This   you need to configure your terminal with remote access        git config --global user name  abc       git config --global user email  abc example com

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If you are using sourcetree  Repository -  Repository Settings --  Advanced --  uncheck  Use global user settings  box  worked great for me

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git pull should not require this  However if the pull causes a merge conflict  then it seems nessecary

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IMHO  the proper way to resolve this error is to configure your global git config file   To do that run the following command  git config --global -e  An editor will appear where you can insert your default git configurations   Here re are a few    user      name   your username     email   your username users noreply github com   alias        BASIC     st   status     ci   commit     br   branch     co   checkout     df   diff   For more details  see Customizing Git - Git Configuration  When you see a command like  git config        git config --global core whitespace       trailing-space space-before-tab indent-with-non-tab       you can put that into your global git config file as    core     whitespace   space-before-tab -indent-with-non-tab trailing-space   For one off configurations  you can use something like git config --global user name  your username   If you don t set your git configurations globally  you ll need to do so for each and every git repo you work with locally   The user name and user email settings tell git who you are  so subsequent git commit commands will not complain      Please tell me who you are   Many times  the commands git suggests you run are not what you should run   This time  the suggested commands are not bad     git commit -m  first commit       Please tell me who you are   Run    git config --global user email  you example com    git config --global user name  Your Name     Tip   Until I got very familiar with git  making a backup of my project file--before running the suggested git commands and exploring things I thought would work--saved my bacon on more than a few occasions

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You must Write Your email like that    git config --global user email  you example com    Then  Write Username   git config --global user name  Your Name    After That Poupup window will appear   Write USERNAME  amp  EMAIL For Acount YOU want contribute

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I ran into this error message whilst trying to commit some files   Simply running git fetch then trying my commit again worked for me

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Instead of doing a git pull  you can do   git fetch git reset --hard origin master   Neither of those require you to configure your git user name   email   This will destroy any uncommitted local changes   commits  and will leave your HEAD pointing to a commit  not a branch   But neither of those should be a problem for an app server since you shouldn t be making local changes or committing to that repository

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i use heroku cli 1  must use all user name  and user email   git config --global user email  login email    git config --global user name  heroku name    git pull  git url  git  init  git add    5  git commit -m  after config user name  user email  git push heroku master

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For me the issue was network connection  once I reconnected to my wifi  it could fetch the details and commit without any issues

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