From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:57:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: rebase when an author uses accents in name on MacOSx
Message-ID: <7vmx4m3og5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <0A6ABBD7-01D5-4A24-BF0F-78A7F2C46938@spotinfluence.com>

Lanny Ripple <lanny@spotinfluence.com> writes:

> I still think the best solution is figuring out if the platform sed is sane at build time and using a full path (via config setup if being able to change the sed used is a priority).  Short of that something as simple as
>
> (git-am:699+)
>
>    if test -z "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
>    then
>            # Can occur when sed in PATH will not handle UTF8 under LC_ALL=C.
>            gettextln "Patch does not have a valid e-mail address."
>            stop_here $this
>    fi

That is a real fix to the issue (can also happen to name, no?) and
is worth checking.