From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 18:33:17 GMT Subject: Re: Bug: rebase when an author uses accents in name on MacOSx Message-ID: <7vd35k6w0i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <69ED148F-BD10-4DE3-91F2-D31F83A0EAB7@spotinfluence.com> Lanny Ripple writes: > Perhaps the error message in git-am could be modified to indicate > sed is a suspect?. E.g., > > lanny(master); git rebase master rl-clean292 > First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... > /sw/lib/git-core/git-am: line 692: Leblond: command not found > Patch does not have a valid e-mail address. (Used /sw/bin/sed found on PATH). > ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ > lanny((ae6c220...)|REBASE); Hrm, that does not sound an attractive way going forward. Do we have to suspect any and all uses of POSIX tools, just in case somebody installs a broken implementation from random places? Is sed the only thing that is possibly broken? By the way, have you filed a bug report to whoever supplied your /sw/bin/sed?