Question

I’am currently converting a svn repository into a git one. As I proceed manually, I regularly change the user.name and user.email to set the author of the commit. Everything seems to work fine, but now I have to commit something from a user which has no email address. I removed email property from .gitconfig file and tried, but then in git log, email field shows user_login@user_login.(none). Is it possible to set no email and prevent git guessing one ?

Answer 1

I think that you can only do this with an explicit author specification:

git commit --author "Snail Mail <>"

You need the angle brackets so that git knows that you really are passing an empty email address.