gitlabhq/gitlabhq — pull request #1958 by japgolly (2012-11-08 21:41:50+00:00)
Title: Ensure git can commit and prevent it from failing silently

The installation instructions omit an important step (ie. creating a `~/.gitconfig`) that prevents git being able to commit. Worse, when `git commit` fails there would be nothing in the logs or screen to indicate such and as a knock-on effect it also prevented gitlab from being able to communicate with gitolite.

This solves #1904 and potentially others such as #1242, #1766, #1895.