Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Stefan Beller wrote:

quoted

I may have missunderstood.

So today you cannot commit if you don't provide an email address
(usually the first time you try to commit, git asks to "git config
--global author.email=[off-list ref]"), if I remember correctly, so
there is definitely a valid (i.e. user approved) email address.

Not true.  But you do get a big wall of text when you make your
first commit without an EMAIL envvar or configured [user] section,
including

Only if you don't have a fully qualified hostname.

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Felipe Contreras