[[!comment format=mdwn username="spwhitton" subject="comment 1" date="2015-12-08T01:20:26Z" content=""" It looks like git is failing because it can't autodetect an e-mail address for root on the target machine. This might be because the target machine does not have a FQDN, but I'm not sure. Try logging into the target machine as root and running git config --global user.email root@lending-test.local git config --global user.name root as it suggests. """]]