git commit --allow-empty -m foo
'
+# We must test the actual error message here, as an unwanted
+# auto-detection could fail for other reasons.
+test_expect_success 'empty configured name does not auto-detect' '
+ (
+ sane_unset GIT_AUTHOR_NAME &&
+ test_must_fail \
+ git -c user.name= commit --allow-empty -m foo 2>err &&
+ test_i18ngrep "empty ident name" err
+ )
+'
+
test_done