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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2011, 21:21 UTC
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James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@gmail.com> writes:
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>> 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.
>
> I use cvs2git for the conversion (which produces a fast-import
> stream).  That tool doesn't enforce an email address, and it's only
> when I try to rebase that I run into this problem...  AFAICS there's
> nothing fundamentally wrong with what I'm trying to do, so forcing me
> to re-write the author seems to be the wrong answer, no?

Sorry, I do not follow. Nobody is forcing you to rewrite the author, but earlier didn't you say _you_ rewrote the author into that invalid empty string yourself, no?

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Message 4 of 4 in “git rebase fails with: Patch does not have a valid e-mail address.”
  1. James BlackburnSep 8, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2011
  3. Kyle MoffettSep 9, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2011

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