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

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 7, 2011, 17:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20110107173428.GC16571@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <vpq7hegmy66.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> The complete message says:
> 
> "Your name and email address were configured automatically based\n"
> "on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.\n"
> "You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:\n"
> "\n"
> "    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"
> "\n"
> "    git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@example.com>'\n"

Sloppy reading on my part.  So the original text explains:

	how to configure your identity globally
	how to change the identity for a single commit

> "\n"
> "or\n"
> "\n"
> "    git commit --amend --reset-author\n";

Maybe:

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

	    git commit --amend --author='Patch Submitter <author@example.com>'

	To just use your newly configured identity:

	    git commit --amend --reset-author

(modulo wording). The idea being to make it clear to the user why we are telling two ways to do the same thing.

Sorry for the nonsense. Jonathan