Problems using SmartGIT - Unable to auto-detect email address [closed]

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Yesterday I decided to try out SmartGIT to manage my code when a friend suggested I should use SmartGIT.

After installing it and trying it out (successfully) I thought I was set until today when I tried to commit code and I got the error message "unable to auto-detect email address (got 'User@Computer-name.(none)').

I checked the GIT config and everything is set properly, yet I continue to get this message.

Anyone else experience these kind of problems?

Answer 1

After getting in touch with the makers of SmartGIT, they pointed out that my PC was pointing to a git config file in a old folder I used before. Also, my HOME variable was set to point to this folder, causing this weird conflict seeing as SmartGIT (apparently) looks for your .gitconfig file in the %USERNAME% folder. Just moved my .gitconfig to that folder and it worked.

Answer 2

I am completely frustrated:

A. Because this also happened to me and

B. Because the answer in this thread is exceptionally vague.

As far as I could understand you need to put .gitconfig file into you C:/Documents and Settings/USERNAME folder but I:

1) cannot find any .gitconfig file (I searched the entire system) only gitconfig and gitconfig.vim and

2) placing those two files into the aforementioned folder did no good to me.

I have a request for developers: though this issue seems rare, could you please provide an option for a CLEAN UNINSTALL of smartgit as well as CLEAN INSTALL, that recreates EVERY config file necessary. I thought that is a natural practice and was shocked to see such mistakes prop up due to the fact that you do not follow it.

SOLUTION: Ok, so to solve the problem I launched [GIT_FOLDER]/git/git-cmd.bat which launched the command line and entered the commands from the error. Precisely I entered:

git config --global user.email "[MY_EMAIL]"

and

git config --global user.name "[MY_NAME]"

Though I think I entered the same e-mail as the one I gave when I first install the program (to register the non-commercial copy) I don't think they ever asked me for the name then, so the name was completely new. Therefore I don't know if you need to enter the precise e-mail you gave at the first install or not.

After that I restarted Git and commit behavior worked ok.