modelcontextprotocol / modelcontextprotocol/servers
[Git] add ability to set user name and email via env variable
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Description
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When I check the commit made by the MCP run by docker, committer is shown as "root" not respect host git config.
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Add environment variable which MCP server respect and use for git operation
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- mount git config config file?
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the TypeScript MCP server's Git operation entry points and its Docker configuration. Define done as allowing environment-provided user name and email values to be used for Git commits, then verify that a Docker-run MCP commit no longer identifies the committer as root.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- docker, git, typescript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100