If LC_ALL is not passed then the interpreter will assume it is C
(which causes the interpreter to use ASCII). This, in turn, causes
the unicode in various places to trigger a UnicodeDecodeError
exception.
CI workers have that locale set by default.
Some people do not have that locale setting set properly.
This occurs when there is no global setting for git config options user.name and user.email
An example of the error shown below:
E pre_commit.util.CalledProcessError: Command: ('/usr/bin/git', 'commit', '-m', 'init', '--allow-empty')
E Return code: 128
E Expected return code: 0
E Output: (none)
E Errors:
E
E *** Please tell me who you are.
E
E Run
E
E git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
E git config --global user.name "Your Name"
E
E to set your account's default identity.
E Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.
E
E fatal: empty ident name (for <(null)>) not allowed