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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="4.152.108.211"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2013-01-06T17:00:40Z"
+ content="""
+There should be an error message on either the terminal where you started git-annex, or in ~/.xsession-errors if you started it from a GUI menu. 
+
+Without the error message, this seems most likely to be another case of git commit failing due to not being able to determine the user's full name. For example, if I delete my full name out of /etc/passwd, 
+
+<pre>
+describe . ok
+(Recording state in git...)
+
+*** 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  joey@gnu.kitenet.net
+  not allowed
+
+git-annex: user error (git [\"--git-dir=/home/joey/tmp/r/.git\",\"--work-tree=/home/joey/tmp/r\",\"commit-tree\",\"5316749be9efffeee538051b576166291c516472\",\"-p\",\"refs/heads/git-annex\"] exited 128)
+failed
+</pre>
+
+I'm perfectly comfortable with command-line git-annex not working if the system is so misconfigured; after all git tells the user one way to fix it. Perhaps though it's worth the assistant holding the user's hand here and detecting this problem.
+"""]]