Oh thank you Erik, it's great to just know what the problem is. I've been feeling like some voodoo was happening. What are the chances of decreasing that lower bound of author name size? :) -JT On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:11 PM, JT Olds <jtolds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I got a copy of git-sh-setup. All of my commits (that have either >> worked or that I fixed) look like this: >> >> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='JT' >> GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' >> GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='1294756950 -0700' >> Author: jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Email: jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: removing nondeterminism from test >> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:42:30 -0700 >> >> Should "Author" be my name? Could that be what's going on? I don't >> even know where that gets set. The ones that I failed to notice that >> they broke before I pushed them look like this: >> > > "git am" (which git rebase builds on) requires the author name to be > at least three characters long. This is a problem that has been > discussed before, see > <AANLkTinqTL7gH4CHEfy8UrhK13xcO_3UzgIyQka00MAh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > http://mid.gmane.org/AANLkTinqTL7gH4CHEfy8UrhK13xcO_3UzgIyQka00MAh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- 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