[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 5""" date="2018-01-06T17:38:34Z" content=""" I avoid those warnings with properties that clone dotfiles repos containing .gitconfig for root and users who can sudo. It would be fine to have a property to configure them in /etckeeper/.git/config, if you wanted to write it. I think this would do it: Git.repoConfigured "/etc/" ("user.name", "whatever") Git.repoConfigured "/etc/" ("user.email", "whatever@whatever") Those would only be used when the user running etckeeper has not configured it in their own ~/.gitconfig """]]