Has various git and status error messages on premium.scraperwiki.com

[drj11]

(pretty sure this is a bug in premium not this tool, but I'm not sure what's going on yet).

For example, switch into the datahub of drj11 (me) and create a new Code in Your Browser tool (choose Python, obv, but it doens't matter), and press run. you get an error:

Unknown new status! *** Please tell me who you are. Run git config --global user.email "you@example.com" 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 name (for ) not allowed running

[drj11]

(morty will have a field day)

I think it might be git versions. free.scraperwiki.com, where this works, has:

$ git --version
git version 1.7.9.5

premium.scraperwiki.com, where this does not work, has:

$ git --version
git version 1.8.1.2

I continue to investigate.

[drj11]

It is the change in git versions.

In git version 1.8 you have to set all 4 of:

GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME

or you can set:

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"

[drj11]

The following patch may be of interest

diff --git a/http/code.js b/http/code.js
index 07129a9..7c7542d 100644
--- a/http/code.js
+++ b/http/code.js
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ var enrunerate_and_poll_output = function(action) {
   action = action || ""
   command = "./tool/enrunerate " + action
   if (action == "run") {
-    command = "(export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Anonymous'; cd code; git init; git add scraper; git commit -am 'Ran code in browser') >/dev/null; " + command
+    command = "(git config --global user.email $(whoami); git config --global user.name Anon; cd code; git init; git add scraper; git commit -am 'Ran code in browser') >/dev/null; " + command
   }

   scraperwiki.exec(command, function(text) {

[frabcus]

This is a notable case where a virtualenv wouldn't have helped. Versioning the whole chroot very much would have though!