{"thread":{"id":"43638","subject":"Re: rebase fails but not sure why","startedAt":"2006-11-23T00:26:58Z","lastAt":"2006-11-23T09:59:46Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Jeff King","Alan Chandler"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"296795","messageId":"200611230026.58936.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","threadId":"43638","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"rebase fails but not sure why","fromName":"Alan Chandler","fromEmail":"alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","sentAt":"2006-11-23T00:26:58Z","receivedAt":"2006-11-23T00:26:58Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/1862247e5ea8eac114c842f9dc3a5db6253754e24ef7171757cf97eedce48b8c?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"I have been doing repeated rebase on my repository to try and separate out \nmixed streams of development into separate branches.\n\nI have now got to a point where the following error occurs during a rebase.\n\nfatal: empty ident  <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> not allowed\nCommit failed, please do not call \"git commit\"\ndirectly, but instead do one of the following:\n\nWhen you have resolved this problem run \"git rebase --continue\".\nIf you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run \"git rebase --skip\".\nTo restore the original branch and stop rebasing run \"git rebase --abort\".\n\nbut I am not sure how to solve issue.\n\ngit status shows a number of files waiting to be commited, but no unmerged \nfiles. but git rebase --continue just pumps out the same error message.\n\n\n-- \nAlan Chandler\n"},{"id":"297806","messageId":"200611230030.01236.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","threadId":"43638","inReplyTo":"200611230026.58936.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","subject":"Re: rebase fails but not sure why","fromName":"Alan Chandler","fromEmail":"alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","sentAt":"2006-11-23T00:30:01Z","receivedAt":"2006-11-23T00:30:01Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/1862247e5ea8eac114c842f9dc3a5db6253754e24ef7171757cf97eedce48b8c?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Thursday 23 November 2006 00:26, Alan Chandler wrote:\n> I have now got to a point where the following error occurs during a rebase.\n>\n> fatal: empty ident  <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> not allowed\n> Commit failed, please do not call \"git commit\"\n> directly, but instead do one of the following:\n\nI had run \n\ngit rebase --merge --onto b1 b2 b3\n\nI aborted it and ran \n\ngit rebase --onto b1 b2 b3\n\nand it works!\n\n-- \nAlan Chandler\n"},{"id":"296185","messageId":"20061123095946.GA32620@coredump.intra.peff.net","threadId":"43638","inReplyTo":"200611230026.58936.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk","subject":"Re: rebase fails but not sure why","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2006-11-23T09:59:46Z","receivedAt":"2006-11-23T09:59:46Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:26:58AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:\n\n> I have now got to a point where the following error occurs during a rebase.\n> \n> fatal: empty ident  <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> not allowed\n> Commit failed, please do not call \"git commit\"\n> directly, but instead do one of the following:\n\nIt should be pulling that identity from the old commit (using git-commit\n-C). Do you have a commit object with a blank author or committer name\n(which shouldn't have been allowed in the first place, but you never\nknow)? Try running git-log on the range of commits being rebased.\n\n"}]}