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 <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -Peff - 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