Re: rebase fails but not sure why

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:26:58AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:

I have now got to a point where the following error occurs during a rebase.

fatal: empty ident  [off-list ref] not allowed
Commit failed, please do not call "git commit"
directly, but instead do one of the following:

It should be pulling that identity from the old commit (using git-commit
-C). Do you have a commit object with a blank author or committer name
(which shouldn't have been allowed in the first place, but you never
know)? Try running git-log on the range of commits being rebased.