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

James Blackburn [off-list ref] writes:

I'm trying to rewrite some history and git's telling me:

-bash:jamesb:lc-cam-025:33079> git rebase
7f58969b933745d4cb9bb128bbd3fa8d441cdb92
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
Patch does not have a valid e-mail address.

Now it's true there isn't an email address for the author - the author
no longer works for the company, and the email address was removed
during the conversion.  Therefore the repo contains "Author <>".

Given git doesn't ordinarily complain about this, should this prevent
rebase from working?

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.