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

From
James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2011, 11:47 UTC
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Hi,
I'm trying to rewrite some history and git's telling me:

-bash:jamesb:lc-cam-025:33079> git rebase 7f58969b933745d4cb9bb128bbd3fa8d441cdb92 First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... Patch does not have a valid e-mail address.

Now it's true there isn't an email address for the author - the author no longer works for the company, and the email address was removed during the conversion. Therefore the repo contains "Author <>".

Given git doesn't ordinarily complain about this, should this prevent rebase from working?

Cheers, James

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