From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:59:46 GMT
Subject: Re: rebase fails but not sure why
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:

> 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.