JS>> Most likely, your sed has problems with a sed script in function JS>> get_author_ident_from_commit. I tested it like this: JS>> $ sh -c '. $(git --exec-path)/git-sh-setup; JS>> get_author_ident_from_commit HEAD' JS>> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Johannes Sixt' JS>> GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='j6t@xxxxxxxx' JS>> GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='@1350025129 +0200' JS>> -- Hannes IB> Both systems have GNU sed 4.2.1 installed. I wrote a wrapper script wor sed. IB> It's output attached. IB> The difference is letter case in sed input data: IB> Solaris: IB> /^AUTHOR / IB> Windows: IB> /^author / The culprit is bad $PATH : When git-filter-branch runs, for some reason two new entries precede /usr/bin in it: /tmp/777/.ilya-sparc/bin /home/tester/.ilya/opt/SNiFF-3.2.1/bin /export/home/testora/app/testora/product/11.2.0/client_32/bin +/usr/xpg6/bin +/usr/xpg4/bin /usr/bin /home/tester/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0//bin And /usr/xpg6/bin/tr fails to make "AUTHOR" lowercase. -- 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