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 <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk - 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