Git: “please tell me who you are” error

Question

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:

Answer 1

I spent lots of hours on it when I call PHP script to init and commit to git. And I found the work flow should be as:

1. git init
2. git config user.name "someone"
3. git config user.email "someone@someplace.com"
4. git add *
5. git commit -m "some init msg"

If you swap [23] and 1, the config will not work at all.

I wish this will do some help.