Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/41#issuecomment-36449064
Actually I'm having trouble merging this. I think it's because your git
commit doesn't actually have any author information. Do you mind fixing that?
cc @pwendell here since he wrote that merge script
```
rxin @ rxin-mbp : /scratch/rxin/prs/spark-dev-tools/dev
> ./merge_spark_pr.py
Which pull request would you like to merge? (e.g. 34): 41
=== Pull Request #41 ===
title Update io.netty from 4.0.13 Final to 4.0.17.Final
source ngbinh/master
target master
url https://api.github.com/repos/apache/spark/pulls/41
Proceed with merging pull request #41? (y/n): y
Switched to branch 'PR_TOOL_MERGE_PR_41_MASTER'
fatal: No existing author found with '""'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./merge_spark_pr.py", line 197, in <module>
merge_hash = merge_pr(pr_num, target_ref)
File "./merge_spark_pr.py", line 114, in merge_pr
run_cmd(['git', 'commit', '--author="%s"' % primary_author] +
merge_message_flags)
File "./merge_spark_pr.py", line 61, in run_cmd
return subprocess.check_output(cmd)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py",
line 575, in check_output
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['git', 'commit', '--author=""',
'-m', u'Update io.netty from 4.0.13 Final to 4.0.17.Final', '-m', u'This update
contains a lot of bug fixes and some new perf improvements.\r\nIt is also
binary compatible with the current 4.0.13.Final\r\n\r\nFor more information:
http://netty.io/news/2014/02/25/4-0-17-Final.html', '-m', 'Author: ', '-m',
u'Closes #41 from ngbinh/master and squashes the following commits:', '-m',
'']' returned non-zero exit status 128
```
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