From: James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:47:04 GMT
Subject: git rebase fails with: Patch does not have a valid e-mail address.
Message-ID: <CACyv8dckmRxgb9_FDTW+=1Y9bS27b3XZQCHnhjpfHiJig5p6wg@mail.gmail.com>

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