Cannot commit with empty e-mail.

[Densaugeo]

Describe the bug
When git is configured with an empty e-mail address, gitui does not allow commits.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

git config --global user.email "<>"
git init foo
cd foo
echo "some content" > a_file.txt
gitui
# Stage a_file.txt
# Hit "c" to start a commit
# Type any commit message and hit enter

Expected behavior
A new commit should be created.

Screenshots

Context (please complete the following information):

• Fedora 39
• GitUI 0.24.3
• Git 2.44.0

[extrawurst]

That is literally not an empty string 😂

pretty sure that’s an upstream issue in libgit2

[Densaugeo]

For some reason, I though git didn't allow actual empty strings and used <> to represent them. Not sure where I got the idea.

Anyway, I did a quick test with email = in my .gitconfig file, and I got a similar error message: