From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:47:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Rebase blows away GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:11 PM, JT Olds <jtolds@xnet5.com> wrote:
> 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