Keep getting Invalid author specified. Example: A U Thor

Question

Using Eclipse Indigo and egit, everytime I commit a pop up appears and has my name and email in the author and committer boxes. They look fine. however, egit tells me:

Answer 1

When looking at the org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils_ParsePersonIdentTest and the org.eclipse.jgit.util.RawParseUtils#parsePersonIdent() function, I can only imagine some special character or some Git configuration (user.name, user.email) missing.

Those settings should be enteredd in a configuration entry:

The function which calls the parsing is org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.dialogs.CommitMessageComponent#checkCommitInfo()

If you user name and email are correctly set, then it can be an Egit or JGit bug.
A bit like "bug 377969: EGit rebase does not valide user.name and user.email config properly" (on Linux).