On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:42:14PM +0100, René Haber wrote: > I'm running git 1.7.9.2 from Fink Project on MacOS X 10.6. > The gitconfig in hex is attached. Hmm, looks like pretty standard utf8: 0000020: 6d65 203d 2052 656e c3a9 2048 6162 6572 me = Ren.. Haber and the same thing I used in my tests. I tried repeating the test with v1.7.9.2 on OS X (although my test box is 10.7), and couldn't replicate it. Can you show us the commit that causes the problem, as printed by "git cat-file commit $commit | xxd"? I just want to double-check that there are no odd bytes there. Also, what happens if you do: sh -c ' . /sw/lib/git-core/git-sh-setup get_author_ident_from_commit $commit ' (my theory is that this is the underlying problem in the rebase, and should show the bug; by narrowing it down, it should make testing a lot simpler). -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