From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git rebase fails with: Patch does not have a valid e-mail address.
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:15:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7h5jx8dz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACyv8dckmRxgb9_FDTW+=1Y9bS27b3XZQCHnhjpfHiJig5p6wg@mail.gmail.com> (James Blackburn's message of "Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:47:04 +0100")
James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@gmail.com> writes:
> 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?
Perhaps you used "filter-branch" for conversion and your "doesn't
ordinarily complain about this" refers to it? If so, I have to say that it
is filter-branch that needs to be fixed to error out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-08 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-08 11:47 git rebase fails with: Patch does not have a valid e-mail address James Blackburn
2011-09-08 17:15 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
[not found] ` <CACyv8dc28sRWsObYi3vbFNakj=R-2Q9eAoJdFfqNxsqq2+_aPg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-09-08 21:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-09 4:45 ` Kyle Moffett
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