Git: “please tell me who you are” error

Question

I have app servers that I bootstrap together using Chef + some ad-hoc bash scripts. The problem is, when I want to run an update on one of these app servers, I get:

Answer 1

I had this as a faulty error message:
git pull worked fine on the cmd line
git pull failed in a Perl CGI process (a webhook to auto-deploy from github) with the above error.

Doing a git status identified a clashing file. Sorting it fixed the problem.

Problem reoccurred later when I changed some config settings.

This time, setting $HOME and $USER env vars fixed it (are unset by default in a CGI process)

Answer 2

That’s a typo. You’ve accidently set "user.mail" with no "e". Fix it by setting "user.email" in the global configuration with

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

Found solution here

https://stackoverflow.com/a/14662703

Answer 3

it works for me, try This.. you need to configure your terminal with remote access.

     git config --global user.name "abc"
     git config --global user.email "abc@example.com"