A bug fix for the test suite

vcs_repo_mgr/__init__.py

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 )
 
 # Semi-standard module versioning.
-__version__ = '0.22.1'
+__version__ = '0.22.2'
 
 USER_CONFIG_FILE = os.path.expanduser('~/.vcs-repo-mgr.ini')
 """The absolute pathname of the user-specific configuration file (a string)."""
@@ -502,8 +502,13 @@ def author(self):
         """
         The author for commits created using :func:`commit()` (a string).
 
-        Subclasses are expected to override this property to default to the
-        author configured in the version control system.
+        This is a string of the form ``name <email>`` where both the name and
+        the email address are required (this is actually a slight
+        simplification, but I digress).
+
+        The :attr:`author` property needs to be provided by subclasses and/or
+        the caller (by passing it to :func:`__init__()` as a keyword
+        argument).
         """
 
     @required_property

vcs_repo_mgr/tests.py

@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ def check_commit_support(self, cloned_repo):
             assert not cloned_repo.is_clean
             # Commit the change we made.
             cloned_repo.commit(
-                author="vcs-repo-mgr",
+                author="Peter Odding <vcs-repo-mgr@peterodding.com>",
                 message="This is a test",
             )
             # Make sure the working tree is clean again.