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Re: rebase fails but not sure why

From
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Date
Nov 23, 2006, 00:30 UTC
Message-ID
<200611230030.01236.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
In-Reply-To
<200611230026.58936.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
On Thursday 23 November 2006 00:26, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> I have now got to a point where the following error occurs during a rebase.
>
> fatal: empty ident  <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> not allowed
> Commit failed, please do not call "git commit"
> directly, but instead do one of the following:
I had run 
git rebase --merge --onto b1 b2 b3
I aborted it and ran 
git rebase --onto b1 b2 b3
and it works!
-- 
Alan Chandler
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