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fatal: unable to auto-detect email address

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Versions

Angular CLI: 6.0.5 Node: 8.11.1 OS: linux x64

Repro steps

git config --global unset user.email
ng new mytestapp

Observed behavior

*** 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 (

I consider that since there is a fatal error, the command has not ended successfully. Why a generation of a new project requires that I have a globally set user.email? I setup this per-project, not globally.

Desired behavior

Not to raise a fatal error, if git user.email has not been set globally.

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Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

Broccocommented, Jun 7, 2018

I am marking this as a feature, if you would like to create a project while controlling the git options, you can use the --skip-git option which will not create the repo.

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