Git commit ошибка author identity unknown

working on a lab machine which has a shared login. don’t want to set global git config parameters.

git commit --author="username <email>"

This used to work on older git versions. now it produces this error:

*** 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: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'blah@blah.(none)')

Any thoughts?

asked Apr 16, 2015 at 20:28

What if you set the git config info just for the current repository?

  git config user.email "you@example.com"
  git config user.name "Your Name"

EDIT
Based on OP comment a possible solution is:

GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="you@email.com" && GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Your Name" && git commit

answered Apr 16, 2015 at 20:32

AguardienticoAguardientico

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First, With Git 2.29 (Q4 2020), the error message is clearer.

See commit 9ed104e (21 Aug 2020) by Junio C Hamano (gitster).
^{(Merged by Junio C Hamano — gitster — in commit e9bd00a, 31 Aug 2020)}

ident: say whose identity is missing when giving user.name hint

If user.name and user.email have not been configured and the user invokes:
git commit --author=...  
without specifying the committer identity, then Git errors out with a message asking the user to configure user.name and user.email but doesn’t tell the user which attribution was missing.

This can be confusing for a user new to Git who isn’t aware of the distinction between user, author, and committer.

Give such users a bit more help by extending the error message to also say which attribution is expected.

The error message will clearly state:

Author identity unknown
# or
Committer identity unknown

Second, from OP’s comment:

Other people use the machine and the same repo. I guess I could set up the git config and then remove the configuration when I’m done

You can wrap the git command and forcing each used to identify themselves (once per shell session).
See «Best pracitces for multi-developer Git for single user application» and my project VonC/gitw.

answered Sep 1, 2020 at 18:47

VonCVonC

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Another solution is, to set the identity just for one run of git commit and make use of the -c option of git.

git -c user.name="Your Name" -c user.email="you@example.com" commit -m "message"

My scenario is to run a docker container with setting a user (not being root in the container), with has no write permission on it home directory. The image is docker.io/alpine/git.

$ docker run -u 1004:1005 -it --rm --entrypoint=/bin/sh docker.io/alpine/git 
~ $ git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
error: could not lock config file /git/.gitconfig: Permission denied

answered Aug 13, 2022 at 11:55

white_geckowhite_gecko

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In Terminal:

git config --global user.email "nive54@gmail.com"
git config --global user.name "Nivetha"

Note:

GitHub registered email —> nive54@gmail.com

Your system name —> Nivetha (Refer to thispc->properties for this.)

Olivia Stork

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answered Jan 15, 2021 at 12:17

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In Github Desktop while pushing a code you may face an error saying,

Author Identity Unknown

In this article, we will show some easy methods to solve the error.

Solution 1:

To check if git is available on your pc open the command prompt and run
```
git --version
```
Then, you need to set your git credentials globally in your machine. Just run on your command prompt or Git Bash
```
git config --global user.email "Your Email"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
```

Now try to push your code.

Solution 2:

Click on the Profile icon in the upper-right corner then click on Settings

Then, from the left-sidebar go to Emails

From this setting, you can select your email preference. You can add a new email and make it a primary email

After setting up Github email, open your Github Desktop app.

From top menu go to the File menu, then click on Options

Then click on Git from the left sidebar.

Here type your preferred Name and your Github Email which you set up in the previous step. Finally, Save the update.

Now, try to perform git operations. Hope it will work fine.

Thanks for reading the article. Hope it will solve your problem. If you face any problems, don’t hesitate to comment here.

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Describe the bug

When attempting to commit or push changes, I get the error ‘Author Identity Unknown’, despite already having set global user.name and user.email on Git.

Relevant errors (if available)

Error: Author identity unknown

*** 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: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'athshean@desktop.(none)')

    at Object.action (plugin:obsidian-git:23914:25)
    at PluginStore.exec (plugin:obsidian-git:23939:25)
    at eval (plugin:obsidian-git:21526:43)
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at GitExecutorChain.handleTaskData (plugin:obsidian-git:21524:16)
    at GitExecutorChain.eval (plugin:obsidian-git:21508:44)
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at fulfilled (plugin:obsidian-git:20357:24)

Steps to reproduce

Fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04.1
Fresh install of Obsidian v1.0.3
Installed git v2.34.1 via apt-get
Ran git config --global user.email and git config --global user.name
Created fresh repository, used git clone to clone repo.
Opened workspace as a vault in Obsidian
Installed Obsidian Git v.2.9.0
Attempted to commit changes via command palette

Expected Behavior

Commit changes and push to remote

Addition context

Git commit and push works fine when used in terminal. The problem seems to be with obsidian-git.

Operating system

Linux

Plugin version

2.9.0

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