I asked this in #git on freenode, and I've also spent a while searching the internet for anyone with any similar issues, but I can't seem to find anyone or anything that knows what's going on. On every fresh install of Ubuntu that I have used (by default, I use ecryptfs for my home directory, which of course has its own set of silly Git errors right now), when I clone from a remote repository, have changes local to me, and changes on the remote repository, do 'git pull --rebase', occasionally my GIT_AUTHOR_NAME gets set to my GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL on my changes that get applied on top of the remote changes. This is incredibly frustrating, so much so that my workflow now includes running an alias to git filter-branch that fixes this. Notable things: so far I have only had a remote server hosted by Gerrit, but I can't imagine how changes on the remote git server could possibly affect my local changes. Like I said, I'm using ecryptfs, and I'm using vanilla Git from the latest stable Ubuntu, though I've had this problem on Ubuntus for a few releases now. Anyone have any idea why this might happen? -JT -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html