Re: Git Rebase blows away GIT_AUTHOR_NAME

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:00:45AM -0700, JT Olds wrote:

I don't have git-sh-setup, which seems like it should be included in
the git-core package, but it's not. I have git-core
1:1.7.1-1.1ubuntu0.1 installed. Obviously this precludes
get_author_ident_from_commit from working.

Oops, sorry about that. It ships in the /usr/lib/git-core directory
these days (it _used_ to ship in /usr/bin, so "." would find it
automatically). And when I did my test, I was using the git repository
itself, so of course it was in my current directory then. :)

But it looks like you found it.

Author: jt@instructure.com
Email: jt@instructure.com
Subject: removing nondeterminism from test
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:42:30 -0700

Should "Author" be my name? Could that be what's going on? I don't
even know where that gets set. The ones that I failed to notice that
they broke before I pushed them look like this:

Yep, it should be your name. So my next to suspect would be the
git-mailinfo parser, and indeed, that's the thing that has the
3-character limit that Erik mentioned.

So that's definitely the problem.

-Peff