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**What steps will reproduce the problem?**

    stone@skynet ~/annex $ git init
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/stone/annex/.git/
    stone@skynet ~/annex $ git annex init "work"
    init work 
    *** 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 name (for <stone@skynet>) not allowed
    git-annex: git ["--git-dir=/home/stone/annex/.git","--work-tree=/home/stone/annex","commit-tree","4b825dc652cb6eb9a060e64bf8d69288fbee4904"] exited 128
    stone@skynet ~/annex $ git config -l
    user.email=stone@nospam.hu
    user.name=Stone
    core.editor=nano
    color.ui=auto
    core.repositoryformatversion=0
    core.filemode=true
    core.bare=false
    core.logallrefupdates=true
    annex.uuid=499fb545-0b98-4bfc-816c-fb3704f3aaa0
    stone@skynet ~/annex $ cat ~/.gitconfig 
    [user]
    	email = stone@nospam.hu
    	name = Stone
    [core]
    	editor = nano
    [color]
    	ui = auto
    stone@skynet ~/annex $ 

**What is the expected output? What do you see instead?**


**What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?**

commit 56c037c69e75def74d6ea90de8aa8a1954c52178 Arch Linux

**Please provide any additional information below.**

> [[done]] by adding name to the user, in /etc/passwd. --Stone

>> Actually, [[done]] by avoiding clobbering HOME when running some git
>> commands. --[[Joey]]