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Re: Git Rebase blows away GIT_AUTHOR_NAME

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2011, 17:47 UTC
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:11 PM, JT Olds <jtolds@xnet5.com> wrote:
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> I got a copy of git-sh-setup. All of my commits (that have either
> worked or that I fixed) look like this:
>
> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='JT'
> GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='jt@instructure.com'
> GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='1294756950 -0700'
> Author: jt@instructure.com
> Email: jt@instructure.com
> Subject: removing nondeterminism from test
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:42:30 -0700
>
> Should "Author" be my name? Could that be what's going on? I don't
> even know where that gets set. The ones that I failed to notice that
> they broke before I pushed them look like this:
>

"git am" (which git rebase builds on) requires the author name to be at least three characters long. This is a problem that has been discussed before, see <AANLkTinqTL7gH4CHEfy8UrhK13xcO_3UzgIyQka00MAh@mail.gmail.com>:

http://mid.gmane.org/AANLkTinqTL7gH4CHEfy8UrhK13xcO_3UzgIyQka00MAh@mail.gmail.com
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  1. JT OldsJan 12, 2011
  2. Jeff KingJan 12, 2011
  3. JT OldsJan 13, 2011
  4. JT OldsJan 13, 2011
  5. Erik Faye-LundJan 13, 2011
  6. JT OldsJan 13, 2011
  7. Erik Faye-LundJan 13, 2011
  8. Tor ArntsenJan 14, 2011
  9. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  10. Tor ArntsenJan 14, 2011
  11. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  12. JT OldsJan 14, 2011
  13. Linus TorvaldsJan 14, 2011
  14. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  15. Jeff KingJan 14, 2011
  16. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  17. Jeff KingJan 14, 2011
  18. Jay SoffianJan 14, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2011
  20. Jeff KingJan 14, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2011
  22. Jeff KingJan 17, 2011
  23. Erik Faye-LundJan 17, 2011
  24. JT OldsJan 18, 2011
  25. Jay SoffianJan 19, 2011
  26. Tor ArntsenJan 14, 2011
  27. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  28. Linus TorvaldsJan 14, 2011
  29. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  30. Jeff KingJan 13, 2011

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