Hudson git failed to send out build failure email to

Question

How to configure the git user.name to enable Hudson send out email to the user who commit code?

I just follow the standard way to configure the git user.name with "User Name (userid)", see below.

git config --global user.name "Euler XXXX (euler)"

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Then I commit the code to git repository, which trigger Hudson build. But it was failed to send out the email to me with email [email protected].

See the Hudson log as below:

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[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: < 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Sep 10 15:05:51 CST 2010
[INFO] Final Memory: 3M/74M
[INFO] ----

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**Failed to send e-mail to Euler XXXX (euler) because no e-mail address is known, and no default e-mail domain is configured**
...

In Hudson configuration, I configured "LDAP Email Lookup", which provided by Hudson LDAP email plugin.

While if I configure the user.name with the userid, which is userid in my LDAP server, then the Hudson build can find email address.

Answer 1

git config --global writes to global ~/.gitconfig file.

Your problem comes from the fact that ~ used when you typed the git config is not the same than the ~ used by the user actually executing the Hudson job.

Check and make sure of the user home actually involved in that Hudson job execution.