From: Gunnar Wagner <gunnar.wagner@irisgermanica.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 08:15:36 GMT
Subject: commit --amend --author error
Message-ID: <54B4D428.2050300@irisgermanica.com>

I got APGL licensed code from someone else and want to post it on my 
github (without taking credit for the work)

tried   git commit --amend --author="Author name, www.website.com" but 
got an error message which said something like "original author not found"
Can it be that the --amen --author only work if the author is on github 
himself?