Inside the virtual machine the git configuration is not set correctly

[Zteve]

At present some of the configuration is defaulted (no user and no email, for instance) and some of it is obtained from the repository(ies). We need to develop a policy for this. Do we inherit everything?

Currently we go to great lengths to set up the authorisation credentials (.ssh ids) so that the machine can read (write?) to the repositories and so on, but if git-work is done the machine won't look like the original user.

[Zteve]

This needs clear doc.