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Re: Git Rebase blows away GIT_AUTHOR_NAME

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JT Olds <jtolds@xnet5.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2011, 17:11 UTC
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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_AUTHOR_NAME='jt@instructure.com'
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='jt@instructure.com'
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='1294775987 -0700'
Author: jt@instructure.com
Email: jt@instructure.com
Subject: some cleanup
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:59:47 -0700

Thanks again for the help. This has been frustrating me for months. Still working on a duplicate-the-problem script.

-JT
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM, JT Olds <jtolds@xnet5.com> wrote:
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>> Some things off the top of my head: Does your GIT_AUTHOR_NAME or
>> GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL contain any odd characters that might confuse a parser?
>
> Nah, from my .git/config
>
> [user]
>        name = JT
>        email = jt@instructure.com
>
>> Do you do anything special with setting up those environment variables
>> in your shell (e.g., in a .bashrc or .profile; those files _shouldn't_
>> be read by a non-interactive shell, but it's something to investigate)?
>
> Nope, the only place in my entire home directory where those get set
> are in my filter-branch script to fix them, which I only run after the
> problem manifests itself.
>
>> For that matter, how do you set up your identity in general (by
>> environment, or in ~/.gitconfig, or a local .git/config in each repo),
>> and what does it contain?
>
> I have a global identity in ~/.gitconfig
>
> [user]
>    name = JT
>    email = hello@jtolds.com
>
> and then in particular topic branches in their .git/config like before.
>
>> Can you try running this in a repo that's giving you problems:
>>
>>  . git-sh-setup
>>  git log --format=%H --author=your.name |
>>  while read rev; do
>>    get_author_ident_from_commit $rev
>>    git format-patch -1 --stdout $rev |
>>      git mailinfo /dev/null /dev/null
>>  done | less
>
> I don't have git-sh-setup, which seems like it should be included in
> the git-core package, but it's not. I have git-core
> 1:1.7.1-1.1ubuntu0.1 installed. Obviously this precludes
> get_author_ident_from_commit from working.
>
>> If that doesn't turn up anything, I think the next thing to try would be
>> making a script that reproduces the problem for you, and see if I can
>> reproduce it here.
>
> Alright, I'll see what I can do. Thanks.
>
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  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
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  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
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  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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