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Re: git-filter-branch may leave tree in a nasty state

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 2, 2008, 20:40 UTC
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<alpine.LSU.1.00.0803022039360.22527@racer.site>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0803022029540.27717@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Hi,
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> $ git-filter-branch --env-filter 'export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="";' b4caa441..HEAD
> Rewrite cf1d02ac074041f7e570ff206d87fb47ef2b2c34 (1/1)fatal: empty ident  
> <user@corp.com> not allowed

Well, I kinda expected people savvy enough to run filter-branch to have set up the proper ident ;-)

Ciao, Dscho

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