Git: "please tell me who you are" error
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I have app servers that I bootstrap together using Chef + some ad-hoc bash scripts. The problem is, when I want to run an update on one of these app servers, I get:


    19:00:28: *** Please tell me who you are.
    
    Run
    
      git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
      git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Do I really need to set this for doing a simple `git pull origin master` every time I update an app server? Is there anyway to override this behavior so it doesn't error out when name and email are not set?

