• • • Issue 3874 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

+1.

Any chance of having this feature included in an upcoming release?

I haven't touched this one because I'm not honestly sure it's a good idea to mess around in the home directory of the user Hudson (or the slave, etc) is running as - as a rule, I don't think Hudson should be writing anything to anywhere outside of HUDSON_HOME, the slave root, or /tmp.

This issue is about providing a default user's name and e-mail if they are missing. "~/.gitconfig" is the same as "$HUDSON_HOME/.gitconfig" and it's safe to generate a default hudson user's name as a constant "Hudson" and e-mail using one provided in the global configuration.

Actually, you don't have to change ~/.gitconfig at all.

Just do:

git config user.email "you@example.com"
git config user.name "Your Name"

...from within the git repository you just cloned/created.

Alternatively, you can set the environment variables:
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL

I'm taking that approach - this'll be in the next release.