Keep getting Invalid author specified. Example: A U Thor

Question

Using Eclipse Indigo and egit, everytime I commit a pop up appears and has my name and email in the author and committer boxes. They look fine. however, egit tells me:

Answer 1

Look at the message you are getting:

Invalid author specified. Example: A U Thor

It simply means that it wants info in indicated format.

For example, if your name is James Bond then you need to type

James Bond

You can do the same in both rows.