Ensure author & committer before asking for commit message.

It's better to find out you need to fix your author and
committer information before you enter a long commit message.

Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/git-commit.sh b/git-commit.sh
index 26cd7ca..6ef1a9d 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-commit.sh
+++ b/git-commit.sh
@@ -640,6 +640,8 @@ case "$no_edit" in
                exit 1
                ;;
        esac
+       git-var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT > /dev/null  || die
+       git-var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT > /dev/null  || die
        ${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}} "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG"
        ;;
 esac