From: Simon Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:17:35 GMT Subject: Git commit amend empty emails Message-ID: <548847EF.7080805@gmail.com> Git is having empty email problems I think, I'm on git v2.1.3. Steps to reproduce: $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test_git/.git/ $ echo 'test' > abc $ git add --all 1 ↵ $ git commit --message 'test' [master (root-commit) 3cc2793] test 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 abc $ echo 'test2' > abc $ git commit --amend fatal: Malformed ident string: 'admin <> 1418217345 +0000'