Re: git rebase fails with: Patch does not have a valid e-mail address.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 8, 2011, 17:15 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7h5jx8dz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACyv8dckmRxgb9_FDTW+=1Y9bS27b3XZQCHnhjpfHiJig5p6wg@mail.gmail.com>

James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@gmail.com> writes:

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> I'm trying to rewrite some history and git's telling me:
>
> -bash:jamesb:lc-cam-025:33079> git rebase
> 7f58969b933745d4cb9bb128bbd3fa8d441cdb92
> First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
> Patch does not have a valid e-mail address.
>
> Now it's true there isn't an email address for the author - the author
> no longer works for the company, and the email address was removed
> during the conversion.  Therefore the repo contains "Author <>".
>
> Given git doesn't ordinarily complain about this, should this prevent
> rebase from working?

Perhaps you used "filter-branch" for conversion and your "doesn't ordinarily complain about this" refers to it? If so, I have to say that it is filter-branch that needs to be fixed to error out.