[[!comment format=mdwn username="marvin" ip="91.152.75.65" subject="comment 1" date="2013-04-17T09:11:08Z" content=""" Here is the message from the nameless error: Failed to make repository Something went wrong setting up the repository on the remote server. Transcript: Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/marvin/first/ init *** 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 not allowed git-annex: user error (git [\"--git-dir=/home/marvin/first\",\"commit-tree\",\"4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904\"] exited 128) failed git-annex: init: 1 failed """]]