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Re: git-am and workflow question

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MTMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Date
Feb 10, 2007, 22:18 UTC
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<20070210221852.GC32216@mellanox.co.il>
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> My second pass is actually applying the patch by piping each
> e-mail message from my e-mail client to "git am -3 -s", and if I
> do not like something in the patch, I make corrections and then
> run "git commit --amend".

git-commit --amend seems to rewrite the commit author which is annoying if you only want to modify the log message a little. As a work-around I copy the author info from the log and passing --author explicitly, but is there an easier way?

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  3. Kumar GalaFeb 8, 2007
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  5. Michael S. TsirkinFeb 10, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2007
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