Provide an explicit email address for git, else it will error (or older setups could use a $user@$hostname automatically)
diff --git a/ForgeGit/forgegit/model/git_repo.py b/ForgeGit/forgegit/model/git_repo.py
index 981a23e..7e02905 100644
--- a/ForgeGit/forgegit/model/git_repo.py
+++ b/ForgeGit/forgegit/model/git_repo.py
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
tmp_repo.git.fetch(mr.downstream_repo.full_fs_path, mr.source_branch)
author = h.really_unicode(c.user.display_name or c.user.username)
tmp_repo.git.config('user.name', author.encode('utf8'))
- tmp_repo.git.config('user.email', '')
+ tmp_repo.git.config('user.email', 'allura@localhost') # a public email alias could be nice here
msg = u'Merge {} branch {} into {}\n\n{}'.format(
mr.downstream_repo.url(),
mr.source_branch,
