steev@wintermute ~/repos/linux-2.6 $ git rebase master First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... HEAD is now at de372ec... Documentation/i386/boot.txt: update and correct *** Your name cannot be determined from your system services (gecos). Run git config user.email "you@email.com" git config user.name "Your Name" To set the identity in this repository. Add --global to set your account's default fatal: empty ident not allowed