From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:13:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: suggest --amend --reset-author to fix commiter identity
Message-ID: <20110107171329.GA16571@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1294409671-5479-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy wrote:

> --- a/builtin/commit.c
> +++ b/builtin/commit.c
> @@ -47,7 +47,11 @@ static const char implicit_ident_advice[] =
>  "\n"
>  "If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with:\n"
>  "\n"
> -"    git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@example.com>'\n";
> +"    git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@example.com>'\n"
> +"\n"
> +"or\n"
> +"\n"
> +"    git commit --amend --reset-author\n";
>

This message gets used when the author was set from gecos because
not available in the configuration.  Do you perhaps mean:

	If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with:

	    git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@example.com>'
	    git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@example.com>'

	or

	    cat <<EOF >>~/.gitconfig
	    [user]
	      name = Your Name
	      email = you@example.com
	    EOF
	    git commit --amend --reset-author

?