Gitg doesn't report Git errors

I tried to follow through a workflow to add and commit a single file to a github repository.

Gitg reported that an unknown error had occurred and git had returned a non-zero error code.

When I ran git from the command line instead, it became obvious that git was complaining it needed user.email and user.name keys to be defined before I could commit the file.

Gitg should report the output of errored git invocations, else it's impossible to know what is going on under the hood. The error I received was unnecessarily mysterious, given that the git binary was reporting in detail what the nature of the error was.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gitg 0.2.7-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-3.6-generic 3.11.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-3-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 20 16:03:55 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-15 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130626)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gitg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)