Windows: Fix crash when user.name is not set in git config.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/doc/bugs/getEffectiveUserID_not_supported_on_Windows.mdwn b/doc/bugs/getEffectiveUserID_not_supported_on_Windows.mdwn
index 458c18b90..e8271ff94 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/getEffectiveUserID_not_supported_on_Windows.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/getEffectiveUserID_not_supported_on_Windows.mdwn
@@ -20,3 +20,9 @@ Running Windows 7, x64. Also tried running as administrator and in a cmd.exe she
 ### Please provide any additional information below.
 
 The `git annex test` command does work, and all 84 tests passes.
+
+> [[fixed|done]]; I was able to reproduce this bug, and it was crashing
+> trying to look up the geckos username. I don't understand why this worked
+> before; some change exposed this code path on Windows. In any case, I've
+> fixed the crash, and I will be updating the windows builds with this bug
+> fix. --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/bugs/getEffectiveUserID_not_supported_on_Windows/comment_1_26cd277e6bbfcac920ca0a2a47acfcfd._comment b/doc/bugs/getEffectiveUserID_not_supported_on_Windows/comment_1_26cd277e6bbfcac920ca0a2a47acfcfd._comment
deleted file mode 100644
index f9412487c..000000000
--- a/doc/bugs/getEffectiveUserID_not_supported_on_Windows/comment_1_26cd277e6bbfcac920ca0a2a47acfcfd._comment
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-[[!comment format=mdwn
- username="joey"
- subject="""comment 1"""
- date="2014-10-31T16:57:05Z"
- content="""
-This code path should only be called when USERPROFILE or
-one of USERNAME/USER/LOGNAME is not set. Which should not usually be the case
-when using git-annex on windows.
-
-However, since we know that won't work on Windows it might as well not even
-try.. So I've made it instead print an error that indicates which
-environment variables need to be set.
-
-Can you please download the windows daily build from 
-<http://git-annex.branchable.com/install/windows>, and see what this new,
-better error message says?
-"""]]