LAB 5.1 git commit fail

jengel

In step 6 of Lab 5.1 we must execute

 git commit -m "My initial commit" --author="The genuis me <me@myself.com>"

I get the reply back

"*** Please tell me who you are." .....fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'student@ubuntu.(none)'). I am using the official course VM  Ubuntu 16-04.

In step 7 you do actually set these options, and once completed step 6 will work

 I suggest to maybe swap the steps in the labs?

 

 

 

 

 

luisviveropena

Hi Jengel,

In this lab, yes, you can swap step 6 with 7. In fact it was already configured in the system that's showing the lab, so it didn't get the error you had.

Thanks,

Luis.

cvazquez8105

my OS is ubuntu and I got the same error even after performing the git config commands. What I noticed was that the error was telling me to input "global" git config. So I used the following and it worked.

root@lcfs-vm:/git-test# git config --global user.name "Genius"

root@lcfs-vm:/git-test# git config --global user.email "genius@genius.com"

root@lcfs-vm:/git-test# git commit -m "My initial commit" --author="A Genius <blah@linux.com>"

[master (root-commit) 48a9720] My initial commit

 Author: A Genius <blah@linux.com>

 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

 create mode 100644 somejunkfile

root@lcfs-vm:/git-test# get log

No command 'get' found, but there are 18 similar ones

get: command not found

root@lcfs-vm:/git-test# git log

commit 48a972083f324f322c02340231579f60a9ae4428

Author: A Genius <blah@linux.com>

Date:   Fri Oct 6 11:47:30 2017 -0700

    My initial commit

root@lcfs-vm:/git-test# 

 

luisviveropena

Hi cvasquez,

Yes, that works. Anyway, you should be able to run git commits with a normal user (instead root).

Regards,

Luis.

chmorenos

Hi Luis, tengo esta salida cuandos doy git status

root@localhost git-test]# git status

On branch master

#

Initial commit

#

Untracked files:

(use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed)

#

somejunkfile

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to try

el objetivo del ejercicio cual es?

muchas gracias

luisviveropena

Hola chmorenos,

El objetivo de este laboratorio es introducirse en el uso de git; para eso se ejecutan varios comandos básicos con el fin de quedar con un ambiente funcional de git y realizar algunas operaciones también básicas.

¿Seguiste todos los pasos del laboratorio?

Saludos,
Luis.