Re: git am mangles commit author name.

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 13, 2010, 05:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20100713054949.GB2425@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinqTL7gH4CHEfy8UrhK13xcO_3UzgIyQka00MAh@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Daniel,

Daniel F wrote:

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> The file contains the line (along with the rest of the patch, of course):
> From: username <emailaddress>
> 
> So I do the following:
> git am --signoff < patchfile.patch
> It applies just fine, but the commit author shows in in git log as:
> emailaddress <emailaddress>
> (i.e., the username is nowhere to be seen)

Because I am lazy I tried with the latest 1.7.2 release candidate. Here is what I did:

 $ git fetch git://repo.or.cz/git/jrn.git rr/svn-fe
 $ git checkout FETCH_HEAD
 $ git format-patch HEAD^..HEAD
 $ git reset --keep HEAD^
 $ git am --signoff <0001-*

The commit author showed up with name and email address as I expected. What did I do wrong?

Alternatively: could you send the first few lines of your .patch file?

Thanks, Jonathan