git rebase loses author name/email if given bad email address

From: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
Date: Dec 14, 2005, 22:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20051214224818.GA5362@kvasir.watson.ibm.com>

If GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL is of a certain form, `git rebase master' will blow away the author name and email when fast-forward merging commits. I have not tracked it down, but here is a testcase that demonstrates the behavior.

Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>

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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2005 Amos Waterland
+#
+
+test_description='git rebase should not destroy author information
+
+This test runs git rebase and checks that the author information is not lost.
+'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=bogus_email_address
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'prepare repository with topic branch, then rebase against master' \
+    'echo First > A &&
+     git-update-index --add A &&
+     git-commit -m "Add A." &&
+     git checkout -b my-topic-branch &&
+     echo Second > B &&
+     git-update-index --add B &&
+     git-commit -m "Add B." &&
+     git checkout -f master &&
+     echo Third >> A &&
+     git-update-index A &&
+     git-commit -m "Modify A." &&
+     git checkout -f my-topic-branch &&
+     git rebase master'
+
+test_expect_failure \
+    'the rebase operation should not have destroyed author information' \
+    'git log | grep "Author:" | grep "<>"'
+
+test_done

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