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What can cause empty GIT_AUTHOR_NAME for 'git filter-branch --tree-filter' on Solaris?

From
IBIlya Basin <basinilya@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 17, 2012, 06:47 UTC
Message-ID
<1109432467.20121017104729@gmail.com>

The filter-branch command, the contents of ~/.gitconfig and the tree are the same. The command succeeds on cygwin, but fails on Solaris due to unset GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_NAME :

$ git filter-branch --tree-filter "env | grep GIT_ ; $CMD" b416b9bfc5e71531f2f05af4c396bb0ba7560741..HEAD Rewrite 214efc6eec82b015aefe23b2280979f05b351396 (1/16)GIT_DIR=/home/tester/.ilya/builds/makepkg.rap_0.1-1_sparc.XXXXXX/src/rap/.git GIT_INDEX_FILE=/home/tester/.ilya/builds/makepkg.rap_0.1-1_sparc.XXXXXX/src/rap/.git-rewrite/t/../index GIT_WORK_TREE=. GIT_AUTHOR_NAME= GIT_COMMITTER_NAME= GIT_COMMIT=214efc6eec82b015aefe23b2280979f05b351396 fatal: empty ident <my@email.com> not allowed could not write rewritten commit

If I explicitly set these 2 variables, filter-branch succeeds, but other commit attributes like commit date aren't preserved.

I use git 1.7.6, from sunfreeware.
I hope there is some simple thing that needs to be configured.
Next: Jeff King
Message 1 of 24 in “What can cause empty GIT_AUTHOR_NAME for 'git filter-branch --tree-filter' on Solaris?”
  1. Ilya BasinOct 17, 2012
  2. Jeff KingOct 17, 2012
  3. Johannes SixtOct 17, 2012
  4. Re[2]: What can cause empty GIT_AUTHOR_NAME for 'git filter-branch --tree-filter' on Solaris?Ilya Basin, Oct 17, 2012
  5. Re[3]: What can cause empty GIT_AUTHOR_NAME for 'git filter-branch --tree-filter' on Solaris?Ilya Basin, Oct 17, 2012
  6. Jeff KingOct 17, 2012
  7. Jeff KingOct 17, 2012
  8. Johannes SixtOct 18, 2012
  9. Jeff KingOct 18, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 18, 2012
  11. Jeff KingOct 18, 2012
  12. 0/2 clean up filter-branch ident parsingJeff King, Oct 18, 2012
  13. 1/2 git-sh-setup: refactor ident-parsing functionsJeff King, Oct 18, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoNov 12, 2012
  15. Jeff KingNov 12, 2012
  16. Junio C HamanoNov 12, 2012
  17. Jeff KingNov 12, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoNov 12, 2012
  19. 2/2 filter-branch: use git-sh-setup's ident parsing functionsJeff King, Oct 18, 2012
  20. Johannes SixtOct 18, 2012
  21. Jeff KingOct 18, 2012
  22. Jeff KingOct 18, 2012
  23. Jeff KingOct 18, 2012
  24. 2/2 filter-branch: use git-sh-setup's ident parsing functionsJeff King, Oct 18, 2012

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