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 use Jenkins and ran into this problem when trying to perform a release (which requires a git commit). To fix the issues, I needed to add a Custom user name/e-mail address (see picture) This ensured that when the code was checked out it used my build user's name/email address when performing the release. Note, this configuration is available from the Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline project configuration.