--- a/ansible/roles/vcs-sync/tasks/servo-sync.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/vcs-sync/tasks/servo-sync.yml
@@ -32,16 +32,22 @@
   become_user: servo-sync
 
 - name: ssh config for servo-sync user
   template: src=servo-ssh_config.j2
             dest=/home/servo-sync/.ssh/config
             mode=0600
   become_user: servo-sync
 
+- name: git config for servo-sync user
+  template: src=servo-git_config.j2
+            dest=/home/servo-sync/.gitconfig
+            mode=0600
+  become_user: servo-sync
+
 - name: install SSH keys
   copy: dest=/home/servo-sync/.ssh/id_{{ item.name }}
         content="{{ item.value }}"
         mode=0600
   with_items:
     - { name: github, value: "{{ servo_github_ssh_key }}" }
     - { name: hgmo, value: "{{ servo_hgmo_ssh_key }}" }
   become_user: servo-sync

new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/vcs-sync/templates/servo-git_config.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[user]
+    email = {{ servo_github_email | mandatory }}
+    name = {{ servo_github_name | mandatory }}
\ No newline at end of file

--- a/ansible/vcssync-deploy.yml
+++ b/ansible/vcssync-deploy.yml
@@ -20,16 +20,18 @@
 
     # Ansible's variable interpolation behavior is crazy and this ugly redundancy
     # parsing the YAML is the only way gps could get this to work.
     - name: set fact with secrets
       set_fact:
         pulse_userid: "{{ (secrets.stdout | from_yaml).pulse_userid | mandatory }}"
         pulse_password: "{{ (secrets.stdout | from_yaml).pulse_password | mandatory }}"
         servo_github_token: "{{ (secrets.stdout | from_yaml).servo_github_token | mandatory }}"
+        servo_github_email: "{{ (secrets.stdout | from_yaml) .servo_github_email | mandatory }}"
+        servo_github_name: "{{ (secrets.stdout | from_yaml) .servo_github_name | mandatory }}"
         servo_github_ssh_key: "{{ (secrets.stdout | from_yaml).servo_github_ssh_key | mandatory }}"
         servo_hgmo_ssh_key: "{{ (secrets.stdout | from_yaml).servo_hgmo_ssh_key | mandatory }}"
         servo_hgmo_ssh_user: "{{ (secrets.stdout | from_yaml).servo_hgmo_ssh_user | mandatory }}"
 
   roles:
     - common
     - { role: journald-cloudwatch, journald_cloudwatch_group: /vcssync }
     - vcs-sync