[Monotone-devel] Commit finally worked

[Kevin Smith]

I figured it was time to report some good news! I was able to import my 
existing, non-CVS project tree.

I did have to figure out the "no default author" thing. Yes, I'm running 
on Debian. But if I do a "set", I do have environment variables set for 
USER and HOST.

I ran a little program in Ruby and it found the USER environment 
variable, but not HOSTNAME. Strange.

In an earlier message, you mentioned adding code to check getpwent. 
Instead, how about if you just print a friendly error message? I 
actually didn't want the USER/HOSTNAME from my environment used as the 
author, so a suggestion (or requirement?) to configure the author in 
.monotonerc would have been much better for me. I have added this 
suggestion as a bug.

Cheers,

Kevin