From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:31:10 GMT
Subject: git-filter-branch may leave tree in a nasty state
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803022029540.27717@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Hi,



$ git-filter-branch --env-filter 'export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="";' b4caa441..HEAD
Rewrite cf1d02ac074041f7e570ff206d87fb47ef2b2c34 (1/1)fatal: empty ident  
<user@corp.com> not allowed

Ref 'refs/heads/master' was deleted
fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

$ git log
fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'