Question

I’m trying to git pull from a PHP file, but it seems like the config isn’t being used.

git config --global user.name and git config --global user.email are set and git pull works from the command line.

Now when I try to execute this script:

<?php

header('Content-type: text/plain');
system('git pull 2>&1');
echo "\nCompleted!";

I get the following output:

* Please tell me who you are.

Run

git config –global user.email “[e-mail]” 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: empty ident not allowed

Completed!

Is it maybe because the git config is user specfic and PHP is ran from another user?

Answer 1

Just use the -c flag on git itself:

-c <name>=<value>
Pass a configuration parameter to the command. The value given will override values from configuration files. The <name> is expected in the same format
as listed by git config (subkeys separated by dots).

So something like:

git -c user.name=apache pull

should get you there. Add whatever arguments you need. If you want to specify a particular file, then either add the relevant configuration options to the user executing the script, or hack around it by exporting a different HOME env variable first.