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Re: rebase fails but not sure why

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Nov 23, 2006, 09:59 UTC
Message-ID
<20061123095946.GA32620@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<200611230026.58936.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:26:58AM +0000, 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:

It should be pulling that identity from the old commit (using git-commit -C). Do you have a commit object with a blank author or committer name (which shouldn't have been allowed in the first place, but you never know)? Try running git-log on the range of commits being rebased.

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