On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:03 PM Sebastián Mancilla <smancill.m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My system is macOS Mojave 10.14.2. I normally use Git from Homebrew (currently > Git 2.20.1). > > I investigated this further, and I think I found the problem on my end. [...] > I also did bisect Git (I never though I would be bisecting Git itself). > It landed in this commit: 4d010a757c (sequencer: use read_author_script(), > 2018-10-31). Thanks for investigating this. > And the content of .git/rebase-merge/author-script is always the same: > > GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Sebastián Mancilla' > GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='smancill@xxxxxxxx' > GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='@1550530007 -0300 When I look at such a file I get the following: GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='@1549569954 -0800' so it seems to me that a single quote is missing at the end of the line in your file, which might explain the error. Not sure which software is writing this file, but from what you described it might be the tig you had previously installed.