This provider uses the following strategy to discover the committer and author name/mail for a commit: "user" section in .gitconfig "username" passed to maven execution default git config (system user and hostname for email) the "maven-scm" config can be configured like this:
the default email domain to be used (will be used to create an email from the username passed to maven):
git config --global maven-scm.maildomain mycomp.com
you can also enforce the usage of the username for the author and committer:
git config --global maven-scm.forceUsername true

MKS Integrity implementation for Maven's AbstractCheckInCommand
The check-in command will also drop any files that are missing from the working directory