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Re: modifying commit's author

From
JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date
Jan 22, 2007, 21:04 UTC
Message-ID
<20070122210400.GB6614@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To
<200701222150.16465.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:50:16PM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
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> måndag 22 januari 2007 21:37 skrev J. Bruce Fields:
> > If I got the author wrong on a commit, is there a quick way to fix it
> > (e.g. by passing the right arguments or environment variables to commit
> > --amend)?
> 
> Set these:
> GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
> GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
> GIT_COMMITTER_NAME

That doesn't seem to work in this case, since with the commands that take an existing commit as a model (like commit --amend and commit -c), the author information from the existing commit overrides those environment variables. Which is normally what you want.

--b.
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  4. Junio C HamanoJan 22, 2007
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  6. J. Bruce FieldsJan 22, 2007
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