Git commit with no email

Question

I'am currently converting a svn repository into a git one. As I proceed manually, I regularly change the user.name and user.email to set the author of the commit. Everything seems to work fine, but now I have to commit something from a user which has no email address. I removed email property from .gitconfig file and tried, but then in git log, email field shows user_login@user_login.(none). Is it possible to set no email and prevent git guessing one ?

Answer 1

Similar to neodelphi's comment, you can set this for all commits with

git config --global user.name 'Snail Mail'
git config --global user.email '<>'

(You can use quotes instead of escaping.) To set this for the current project only, remove the --global option only. i.e.

git config user.name 'Snail Mail'
git config user.email '<>'

Answer 2

the accepted answer doesn't work on some git versions (including, but not limited to mine (@Szczepan Hołyszewski @xiaodai) )

this answer worked for me

Answer 3

I think that you can only do this with an explicit author specification:

git commit --author "Snail Mail <>"

You need the angle brackets so that git knows that you really are passing an empty email address.