Re: [Monotone-devel] No default author name for branch...

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:48:10PM +0200, Florian Becker wrote:
> hope not to bother you, but i can find something to this on the web....
> 
> address@hidden:~/pl120/Y/YDB/Y+$ monotone commit
> monotone: committing fc1d58a298db2dccecbe6e47c8e2643ac8f8803e
> monotone: committing to branch yplus
> enter passphrase for key ID address@hidden :
> monotone: misuse: no default author name for branch 'yplus'

Add to your ~/.monotonerc:

function get_author(branchname)
    return "address@hidden"
end

Alternatively, upgrade to a recent development version of monotone,
where this isn't necessary.  That change is really recent though; it
hasn't made it into a numbered release yet.

-- Nathaniel

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