ident.c: reword error message when the user name cannot be determined

The "config --global" suggested in the message is a valid one-shot fix,
and hopefully one-shot across machines that NFS mounts the home directories.

This knowledge can hopefully be reused when you are forced to use git on
Windows, but the fix based on GECOS would not be applicable, so
it is not such a useful hint to mention the exact reason why the
name cannot be determined.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index b839dcf5f085a94080e1f7891f3fb40ed151a394..ed44a5345a47d4843e8328c0f879ac925dde2b07 100644 (file)
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static const char au_env[] = "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME";
 static const char co_env[] = "GIT_COMMITTER_NAME";
 static const char *env_hint =
 "\n"
-"*** Your name cannot be determined from your system services (gecos).\n"
+"*** Please tell me who you are.\n"
 "\n"
 "Run\n"
 "\n"