Git: please tell me who you are error

Question

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 "[email protected]"

  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 any way to override this behaviour so it doesn't error out when name and email are not set?

Answer 1

I found how the workflow should be:

1.

git init

2.

git config user.name "someone"

3.

git config user.email "[email protected]"

4.

git add *

5.

git commit -m "some init msg"

If you swap 2,3 and 1, the config will not work at all.

I hope this helps!