"amoni init" give the error : KeyError: "config value 'user.name' was not found"

[telemix]

I have a fresh install of docker and amoni on a fully updated Ubuntu 22.04. I ran amoni init demo and got this output :

$ amoni init demo
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/home/user/.local/bin/amoni", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(cmd())

  File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/amoni/lib/python3.10/site-packages/amoni/cli/amoni.py", line 36, in init
    api.init(directory, app)

  File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/amoni/lib/python3.10/site-packages/amoni/api.py", line 76, in init
    _commit_all("Initial commit", repo=repo, ref="HEAD", parents=[])

  File "/home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/amoni/lib/python3.10/site-packages/amoni/api.py", line 40, in _commit_all
    author = author or repo.default_signature

KeyError: "config value 'user.name' was not found"

I'm pretty sure I followed the instructions in the docs to the letter. What am I doing wrongly? I've not been asked by the app (or told by the docs) to put in any user or login details at this point.

[meatballs]

That looks to me like git isn't configured properly on your machine.

Try this from your command line:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "youremail@yourdomain.com"

and then try amoni init demo

If that fixes it, I'll add some instructions to the docs.

[telemix]

Yes, that worked. Thanks. Me and git are still finding our feet ...

Just to be sure, can those just be anything, or are they used for fetching gitty stuff?

[meatballs]

They can be anything you like - but they appear on commits that you make and those are public if you push your repo to somewhere like github.