Re: possible bug: inconsistent CLI behaviour for empty user.name

2017-02-23 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 05:13:09AM +0100, bs.x@recursor.net wrote: > The problem is that GIT accepts a user.name of " " for some operations > (for example when doing a simple "git commit"), but does require a > "non-empty" user.name for others (like git commit --amend and git > rebase). In

possible bug: inconsistent CLI behaviour for empty user.name

2017-02-02 Thread bs . x . ttp
The problem is that GIT accepts a user.name of " " for some operations (for example when doing a simple "git commit"), but does require a "non-empty" user.name for others (like git commit --amend and git rebase). In case of the latter commands GIT fails with the message "fatal: empty ident name