deployer ignores user's name & email specified in _config.yml deploy/name and deploy/email

[desmond-dsouza]

I do not have global git user-name & user-email configured, but I do have this in my _config.yml:

deploy:
  type: git
  repo: git@github.com:desmond-dsouza/blog.git
  branch: gh-pages
  message: "update blog"
  name: Desmond
  email: <my email>

However, each time I run hexo deploy I get this message:

Committer: desmond <desmond@Air.local>
Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname.

The commit gets done using that incorrect name & email. Is this a bug?

I checked in .deploy_git and its .git/config does not contain any user name or email. It appears like these lines https://github.com/hexojs/hexo-deployer-git/blob/master/lib/deployer.js#L73-L75 are supposed to add those to the .git/config.

[desmond-dsouza]

Is it true that if the deployer runs once and creates .deploy_git and some initial contents, it will not subsequently process (possibly new) information from _config.yml?

If so, that would explain what happened with me. I did not have the name and email fields set up initially, then when I added them later and they seemed to have no effect.

[Kuro-P]

I meet the same situation as you .Here's my solution.
If you update name and email in _config.yml later or you already have .deploy_git on your root, then you should delete .deploy_git and redeploy it, after that your config changes will take effect.

[VegetaPn]

I meet the same situation as you .Here's my solution.
If you update name and email in _config.yml later or you already have .deploy_git on your root, then you should delete .deploy_git and redeploy it, after that your config changes will take effect.

It works. Nice solution.

[shisaru292]

I meet the same situation as you .Here's my solution.
If you update name and email in _config.yml later or you already have .deploy_git on your root, then you should delete .deploy_git and redeploy it, after that your config changes will take effect.

It works, thanks. By the way, redeployment will overwrite the commits hexo has pushed before.