Git fails to commit?

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Hi nixos friends!

I have a small repo that I wanted to commit to a local gitea-server

$ git commit -m "Initial commit" --verbose
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 '......')

$ git config --list --show-origin

shows the correct user.mail and user.name in both my ~/.gitconfig and .git/config

So why does not git read those files?

B.t.w git commit -m "Initial commit" --author "Name <email>" does not work either

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Might be a typo, run this exact command to confirm:

git config get --show-origin --show-names --all --regexp 'user.(name|email)'

Also check your git --version to verify if there is no upstream bug or such.

But this is not really relevant to nix. Unless you find an issue with the declarative config files.

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Thanks for answering!

After watching som youtube videos :slightly_smiling_face:

Then I configured it in my .config/home-manager/home.nix i.e. home manager config and the then everything worked. Seem a bit strange that it does not work with that config.

Anyhow I manged to push everything to the repo :+1: