# Error creating skill
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/error-creating-skill/5526
**Category:** Skills
**Created:** [January 1, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/error-creating-skill/5526 "2019-01-01T15:28:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@sander](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/sander)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/error-creating-skill/5526/1 "2019-01-01T15:28:25Z")
Hi all,
I thought i would have a go at getting into developing skills for mycroft.
i followed this guide :
[https://mycroft.ai/documentation/skills/msk/](https://mycroft.ai/documentation/skills/msk/)
however, when i get to the part where i have to enter my git username , i get the following error :
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File “/home/pi/mycroft-core/.venv/bin/msk”, line 11, in
> sys.exit(main())
> File “/home/pi/mycroft-core/.venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/msk/ **main**.py”, line 67, in main
> return action\_to\_clsargs.action.perform()
> File “/home/pi/mycroft-core/.venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/msk/actions/create.py”, line 278, in perform
> self.commit\_changes()
> File “/home/pi/mycroft-core/.venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/msk/actions/create.py”, line 258, in commit\_changes
> self.git.commit(message=‘Initial commit’)
> File “/home/pi/mycroft-core/.venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/git/cmd.py”, line 548, in
> return lambda \*args, \*\*kwargs: self.\_call\_process(name, \*args, \*\*kwargs)
> File “/home/pi/mycroft-core/.venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/git/cmd.py”, line 1014, in \_call\_process
> return self.execute(call, \*\*exec\_kwargs)
> File “/home/pi/mycroft-core/.venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/git/cmd.py”, line 825, in execute
> raise GitCommandError(command, status, stderr\_value, stdout\_value)
> git.exc.GitCommandError: Cmd(‘git’) failed due to: exit code(128)
> cmdline: git commit --message=Initial commit
> stderr: ’
> \*\*\* Please tell me who you are.
>
> Run
>
> git config --global user.email “[you@example.com](mailto:you@example.com)”
> git config --global user.name “Your Name”
>
> to set your account’s default identity.
> Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.
>
> fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got ‘pi@picroft.(none)’)’
Am i being a total noob and doing something wrong?
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### Author:  [@andlo](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/andlo)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/error-creating-skill/5526/2 "2019-01-01T15:45:18Z")
It it fun making skills for mycroft. So keep trying 😉
```auto
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name “Your Name”
```
and changed [you@example.com](mailto:you@example.com)" and Your Name with your email and Name used on GitHub ?
and then do msk create ?
I see you are on picroft - is it the latest based on strech and is it updated with
```auto
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
```
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### Author:  [@sander](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/sander)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/error-creating-skill/5526/3 "2019-01-01T16:46:47Z")
hey , thx for the reply.
Yes i did set up git on my raspberry like you described but it doenst make a difference. the error remains.
Yes my pi is on stretch and updated
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### Author:  [@andlo](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/andlo)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/error-creating-skill/5526/4 "2019-01-01T17:09:29Z")
☹ then I have no idea - it works at on my mark\_1 and picrofts so I cant reproduce your problem.
Maybe someone else or @KathyReid have a idea.
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### Author:  [@KathyReid](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/KathyReid)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/error-creating-skill/5526/5 "2019-01-01T20:46:53Z")
Thanks for providing the troubleshooting information.
If you’ve already tried the `git config` commands, the _other_ thing to check for in your Skill’s `.git` directory is a `.lock` file. These are created if a file is closed unexpectedly. Do you have any `.lock` files in your Skill’s `.git` directory?
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### Author:  [@sander](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/sander)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/error-creating-skill/5526/6 "2019-01-01T20:52:47Z")
No there are no .lock files in my skills directory.
only :
dialog (dir)
**init**.py
README.md
settings.json
settingsmeta.json
vocab (dir)
**pycache** (dir)
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### Author:  [@KathyReid](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/KathyReid)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/error-creating-skill/5526/7 "2019-01-01T21:36:15Z")
If you type the command `git config --list`, what do you see?
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### Author:  [@sander](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/sander)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/error-creating-skill/5526/8 "2019-01-01T21:45:56Z")
> [@KathyReid](#):
>
> git config --list
user.name=sanderveenman
user.email=sander@XXXX,com ( it says my email address there )
core.editor=nano
strangely enough , after the git config --list the msk create command seems to work.
so now it has created a github repo.
surely just typing git config --list doesnt fix an error? no other commands were given,
but hey, im not complaining 😃 thx for the help.