BE should not crash when be list|show is used on a git repository that have not the config variables user.name and user.email defined in the .git/config file. To view the bug, in my opinion shold not be mandatory to have these two options defined Traceroute: galactica:~/Devel/dumb> be show 996 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/be", line 62, in sys.exit(cmdutil.execute(args[0], args[1:])) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libbe/cmdutil.py", line 76, in execute ret = cmd.execute([a.decode(enc) for a in args]) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/becommands/show.py", line 60, in execute bd = bugdir.BugDir(from_disk=True, manipulate_encodings=not test) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libbe/bugdir.py", line 302, in __init__ self.load() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libbe/bugdir.py", line 382, in load self.load_settings() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libbe/bugdir.py", line 411, in load_settings self._setup_user_id(self.user_id) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libbe/properties.py", line 293, in _fget value = generator(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libbe/bugdir.py", line 177, in _guess_user_id return self.rcs.get_user_id() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libbe/rcs.py", line 258, in get_user_id id = self._rcs_get_user_id() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libbe/git.py", line 56, in _rcs_get_user_id status,output,error = self._u_invoke_client("config", "user.name") File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libbe/rcs.py", line 458, in _u_invoke_client return self._u_invoke(cl_args, stdin=stdin,expect=expect,cwd=directory) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libbe/rcs.py", line 450, in _u_invoke raise CommandError(args, status, error) libbe.rcs.CommandError: Command failed (1): while executing ['git', 'config', 'user.name'] galactica:~/Devel/dumb>