From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:24:18 GMT
Subject: Re: commit --amend --author error
Message-ID: <54B50062.3090209@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <54B4D428.2050300@irisgermanica.com>

Gunnar Wagner schrieb am 13.01.2015 um 09:15:
> 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?
> 

This has nothing to do with github.

The author has be in the form "authorname <authoremail>". The important
parts for the format are the <>.

Michael