It depends on whether it can pull your email address out of the OS. If you're on a linux machine, usually it can't, so it pops up the "set your global user and

It depends on whether it can pull your email address out of the OS. If you're on a linux machine, usually it can't, so it pops up the "set your global user and email" prompt without committing things. If you're on a domain windows machine though, often it can. When that's the case, it does the commit first, and then asks you to set the config explicitly. You then swear, change the config to be blank, and then go amend the commit you just made. In any case, the whole thing is a pain that adds mental overhead I'd rather spend on programming.