No git commits happen if the git user has not been created

[Jefficus]

I have traditionally used a different repository engine so I did not have git fully configured on my machine when I set up soywiki. Since I did not have a global user/email set up, the git commits were failing, but they did so silently. So after a day of use, when I tried to show the git-log, it told me that no commits had been made. It didn't take long to figure out what had gone wrong, but for a while there, it looked as though one of the major features of soywiki wasn't working as advertised.

If anybody is still working on soywiki, it might be worth either displaying some kind of error report in this situation, or at least updating the ReadMe to advise new users to configure their git profile before starting soywiki.

[danchoi]

Thanks for the issue request. I may try to start maintaining this project again. I'll let you know if that happens @Jefficus

[Jefficus]

Cool. FWIW, I'm an ex-developer myself. These days I make my living as a novelist but I still use vim as my primary tool. The only problem has been that trying to serialize the background notes of an entire world into just a few text files was driving me nuts. But now that I've discovered soywiki, I feel like I've finally found the magic combination. I've got the in-file editing power of vim, coupled with the file-space organizational power of a wiki, and I get automatic repository management as icing on the cake. That's an enormous improvement over my manual methods. I have a fairly significant following of other authors and once I've got my feet under me with soywiki, I fully expect to share some blog posts about it and will probably feature it on my YouTube channel as well. I find SW thoroughly usable as it is, but any project that has active support is more likely to attract a larger user base if/when people start giving it a sniff. So hearing that you might reactivate the project is great news. I've also started writing a few extensions for my own use, as a way to explore the architecture. Once I have a stronger sense of how things are plugged together and that my hacks aren't naive, I'll start contributing them back. Thanks for a great tool. Jefferson Smith http://creativityhacker.ca On Jun 30, 2017 8:09 AM, "Daniel Choi" <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for the issue request. I may try to start maintaining this project again. I'll let you know if that happens @Jefficus <https://github.com/jefficus> — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#56 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AMbymDnyE2ZMTqXhieyAev5qYlh_BesDks5sJQGjgaJpZM4OJzG3> .

[aliceinwire]

I could reproduce the problem.
working on making it show some kind of warning.