[PATCH v2] commit: suggest --amend --reset-author to fix commiter identity

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Jan 12, 2011, 18:29 UTC
Message-ID: <1294856954-26841-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1294754860-17701-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

Since the message advise to fix the configuration first, the advantage of this command is that it is cut-and-paste ready, while using --author='...' requires the user to type his name and email a second time.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
---
Sorry, I did a resend the other day, which was plain wrong (I had the
changes in my tree, but sent before commit--amend-ing).

This one should be OK.

 builtin/commit.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 22ba54f..03cff5a 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ static const char implicit_ident_advice[] =
 "    git config --global user.name \"Your Name\"\n"
 "    git config --global user.email you@example.com\n"
 "\n"
-"If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with:\n"
+"After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:\n"
 "\n"
-"    git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@example.com>'\n";
+"    git commit --amend --reset-author\n";
 
 static const char empty_amend_advice[] =
 "You asked to amend the most recent commit, but doing so would make\n"

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1.7.4.rc0.2.g3e22c.dirty