Re: git rebase fails with: Patch does not have a valid e-mail address.

James Blackburn [off-list ref] writes:

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Perhaps you used "filter-branch" for conversion and your "doesn't
ordinarily complain about this" refers to it? If so, I have to say that it
is filter-branch that needs to be fixed to error out.

I use cvs2git for the conversion (which produces a fast-import
stream).  That tool doesn't enforce an email address, and it's only
when I try to rebase that I run into this problem...  AFAICS there's
nothing fundamentally wrong with what I'm trying to do, so forcing me
to re-write the author seems to be the wrong answer, no?

Sorry, I do not follow. Nobody is forcing you to rewrite the author, but
earlier didn't you say _you_ rewrote the author into that invalid empty
string yourself, no?