nbdev-new does not work as expected

[alix559]

sys.exit(nbdev_new())
~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/lambda/nfs/jan2026/research/op_resilience/.pixi/envs/default/lib/python3.13/site-packages/fastcore/script.py", line 170, in _f
return tfunc(**merge(args, args_from_prog(func, xtra)))
File "/lambda/nfs/jan2026/research/op_resilience/.pixi/envs/default/lib/python3.13/site-packages/nbdev/cli.py", line 88, in nbdev_new
nbdev_create_config.wrapped(**kwargs)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
File "/lambda/nfs/jan2026/research/op_resilience/.pixi/envs/default/lib/python3.13/site-packages/nbdev/config.py", line 128, in nbdev_create_config
if not author: raise ValueError("Could not infer author from git. Please pass --author explicitly.")
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: Could not infer author from git. Please pass --author explicitly.

please have a look

[jnareb]

I confirm that nbdev-new --author does not work: using nbdev-new --author jnareb produces the same error, contrary to the suggestion:

ValueError: Could not infer `author `from git. Please pass --author explicitly.

Currently nbdev-new requires that Git repository it is run inside of is configured to interact with GitHub (cloned from GitHub, or with GitHub added as "origin" remote with git remote set-url origin <...>).