# Re: rebase fails but not sure why 3 messages from 2006-11-23 to 2006-11-23. Participants: Jeff King, Alan Chandler. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43638 ## Alan Chandler, 2006-11-23 00:26 Subject: rebase fails but not sure why Message-ID: <200611230026.58936.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200611230026.58936.alan%40chandlerfamily.org.uk ``` I have been doing repeated rebase on my repository to try and separate out mixed streams of development into separate branches. I have now got to a point where the following error occurs during a rebase. fatal: empty ident not allowed Commit failed, please do not call "git commit" directly, but instead do one of the following: When you have resolved this problem run "git rebase --continue". If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git rebase --skip". To restore the original branch and stop rebasing run "git rebase --abort". but I am not sure how to solve issue. git status shows a number of files waiting to be commited, but no unmerged files. but git rebase --continue just pumps out the same error message. -- Alan Chandler ``` ## Alan Chandler, 2006-11-23 00:30 Subject: Re: rebase fails but not sure why Message-ID: <200611230030.01236.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200611230030.01236.alan%40chandlerfamily.org.uk In-Reply-To: <200611230026.58936.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> ``` On Thursday 23 November 2006 00:26, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have now got to a point where the following error occurs during a rebase. > > fatal: empty ident not allowed > Commit failed, please do not call "git commit" > directly, but instead do one of the following: I had run git rebase --merge --onto b1 b2 b3 I aborted it and ran git rebase --onto b1 b2 b3 and it works! -- Alan Chandler ``` ## Jeff King, 2006-11-23 09:59 Subject: Re: rebase fails but not sure why Message-ID: <20061123095946.GA32620@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20061123095946.GA32620%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: <200611230026.58936.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> ``` On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:26:58AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have now got to a point where the following error occurs during a rebase. > > fatal: empty ident not allowed > Commit failed, please do not call "git commit" > directly, but instead do one of the following: It should be pulling that identity from the old commit (using git-commit -C). Do you have a commit object with a blank author or committer name (which shouldn't have been allowed in the first place, but you never know)? Try running git-log on the range of commits being rebased. ```